Copse Cottage, Cedars Road, Torquay, Torquay TQ1 1SB

Detached house · Built before 1900 · 173 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DC for £9,500 · £9,500 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£22420.1 yrs+5.8 pts
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£24220.7 yrs+6.3 pts · reaches C
Solid wall insulation(optional, beyond C)£4,000 – £14,000£26134.4 yrs+6.8 pts

Grants verified 20 August 2026. Costs are the register’s indicative ranges. Savings are restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. Points per measure are estimated from 19.9 million certificates and rescaled to this home’s own certificate delta; the total is the register’s figure.

Running costs

£2,239
per year at grade D
£1,512
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £466 a year — a 4.9% annual return on £9,500.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2020, states £1,411 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

24 April 2026£660,000
24 March 2022£640,000
18 November 2020£600,000
4 February 2019£510,000
19 August 2014£358,000
23 September 2010£360,000
10 September 1997£118,250

Estimated today: £660,000 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Cedars Road: 34 sales since 1995 · £531,150 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

The schools’ own performance — Progress 8 shows value added, not just raw results.

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Warberry CofE AcademyPrimaryunder 0.1 mi
All Saints Babbacombe CofE Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Ilsham Church of England AcademyPrimary0.4 mi
The Spires CollegeSecondary0.6 miProgress 8 -0.15 · average (2023/24)
St Cuthbert Mayne SchoolSecondary1.3 miProgress 8 -0.75 · well below average (2023/24)
Torquay AcademySecondary1.4 miProgress 8 +0.03 · average (2023/24)

Schools from the DfE register, performance from the KS4 performance tables. Progress 8 is a GCSE measure, so primaries have none. Distance is straight-line from the postcode, not a catchment: admission is decided by the school, not by us.

Area context

Police-recorded crime for the wider neighbourhood, not this address. We grade homes, never neighbourhoods — so this is reported as a count, not a rating.

9
crimes a month
99
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 51% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01015269, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Cedars Road

How this home sits against its street.

13
graded homes
61
average score
D
most common grade
0.0
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.