3 Greys Cottages, Babbacombe Downs Road, Torquay TQ1 3LR

Mid-Terrace house · 1930-1949 · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

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MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Low energy lighting(optional, beyond C)£20 – £45typical£134.1 yrs+0.1 pts
Heating controls(optional, beyond C)£400typical£850+ yrs+0.6 pts
Band A condensing boiler(optional, beyond C)£2,600typical£1350+ yrs+1.0 pts
Solar water heating(optional, beyond C)£5,000typical£1750+ yrs+1.2 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels(optional, beyond C)£4,500 – £9,000typical£2050+ yrs+1.5 pts
Solid wall insulation(optional, beyond C)£9,000typical£2450+ yrs+1.7 pts

Grants verified 20 August 2026. Costs are the register’s indicative ranges, except where marked typical, which this certificate did not price and which are taken instead from comparable homes of the same type. 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

£544
per year at grade C
£461
per year at grade C

Energy costs as modelled on the certificate, not a bill. This fuel has too few recent certificates to restate at today's prices.

Sold prices

22 February 2019£240,000
28 July 2017£210,000
19 May 2008£170,000
10 December 1999£80,000
26 February 1999£76,000

Estimated today: £309,886 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Greys Cottages: 6 sales since 1995

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
All Saints Babbacombe CofE Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Priory Roman Catholic Primary School, TorquayPrimary0.7 mi
Warberry CofE AcademyPrimary0.7 mi
The Spires CollegeSecondary0.5 miProgress 8 -0.15 · average (2023/24)
St Cuthbert Mayne SchoolSecondary0.9 miProgress 8 -0.75 · well below average (2023/24)
Torquay AcademySecondary1.3 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.

13.1
crimes a month
144
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 46% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01015240, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.