59 Freshwater Drive, Paignton TQ4 7SD

Mid-Terrace house · Built 1983-1990 · 44 m² · Owner-Occupied · Electric storage heaters

Upgrade Plan

DA for £18,248 · £6,083 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Hot water cylinder insulation£15 – £30£640.4 yrs+4.1 pts
Loft insulation£100 – £350£356.3 yrs+2.3 pts · reaches C
High-retention storage heaters£800 – £1,200£1476.8 yrs+9.6 pts
High-performance doors£1,000 – £0£608.4 yrs+3.9 pts · reaches B
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£7550+ yrs+4.9 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£5850+ yrs+3.8 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£5,000 – £8,000£6950+ yrs+4.5 pts · reaches A

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

£1,044
per year at grade D
£537
per year at grade A

The full plan saves £507 a year — a 2.8% annual return on £18,248.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2015, states £576 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

18 March 2025£170,000
24 November 2015£129,000
20 December 1999£46,000

Estimated today: £164,394 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Freshwater Drive: 144 sales since 1995 · £274,454 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
White Rock Primary SchoolPrimaryunder 0.1 mi
Roselands Primary SchoolPrimary0.8 mi
Galmpton Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary1.0 mi
Churston Ferrers Grammar School AcademySecondary1.1 miProgress 8 +0.17 · average (2023/24)
Paignton AcademySecondary1.6 miProgress 8 -0.63 · well below average (2023/24)
Brixham CollegeSecondary3.0 miProgress 8 -0.74 · well below 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.

5.8
crimes a month
35
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 37% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01015200, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Freshwater Drive

How this home sits against its street.

57
graded homes
64.2
average score
D
most common grade
-1.2
this home vs street
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