Blue Water Barn, Penzance TR20 8TJ

Semi-Detached house · Built before 1900 · 122 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, LPG

Upgrade Plan

FD for £18,655 · £9,328 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Low energy lighting£55£87.3 yrs+0.3 pts
Room-in-roof insulation£1,500 – £2,700£2378.9 yrs+10.6 pts
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£17229.1 yrs+7.7 pts · reaches E
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£13337.5 yrs+6.0 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£5,000 – £8,000£15940.9 yrs+7.1 pts · reaches D
Solid wall insulation(optional, beyond D)£4,000 – £14,000£18648.4 yrs+8.3 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

£1,890
per year at grade F
£995
per year at grade D

The full plan saves £709 a year — a 3.8% annual return on £18,655.

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

7 July 2023£665,000
20 March 2018£475,000
30 September 2016£430,000
29 October 2008£325,000
28 October 2004£150,000

Estimated today: £643,241 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Newlyn SchoolPrimary0.7 mi
Alverton Primary SchoolPrimary0.8 mi
Heamoor Community Primary SchoolPrimary0.9 mi
Mounts Bay AcademySecondary1.1 miProgress 8 -0.56 · well below average (2023/24)
Humphry Davy SchoolSecondary1.4 miProgress 8 -0.27 · below average (2023/24)
Cape Cornwall SchoolSecondary5.5 miProgress 8 -0.08 · 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.

3.8
crimes a month
38
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 50% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01019003, 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.