13 Forth Vean, Portreath, Redruth TR16 4NY

Detached bungalow · Built 1950-1966 · 108 m² · Owner-Occupied · Room heaters, electric

Upgrade Plan

DA for £9,000 · £3,000 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£4322.3 yrs+9.9 pts
High-retention storage heaters£2,400 – £3,600£8513.5 yrs+19.5 pts · reaches B
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£33514.9 yrs+7.7 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

£3,353
per year at grade D
£1,734
per year at grade A

The full plan saves £1,619 a year — a 18.0% annual return on £9,000.

Energy costs as modelled on the certificate, not a bill.

Sold prices

18 March 2025£420,000
1 March 2012£227,500
31 March 1999£76,250

Estimated today: £416,862 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Forth Vean: 32 sales since 1995 · £308,250 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Portreath Community Primary SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Illogan SchoolPrimary1.0 mi
Treloweth Community Primary SchoolPrimary2.1 mi
Pool AcademySecondary2.0 miProgress 8 -0.59 · well below average (2023/24)
Redruth SchoolSecondary2.7 miProgress 8 -0.17 · average (2023/24)
Camborne Science and International AcademySecondary3.1 miProgress 8 -0.15 · 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.

8
crimes a month
88
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 49% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01018892, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Forth Vean

How this home sits against its street.

16
graded homes
40.6
average score
D
most common grade
+18.4
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.