50 Willow Lane, Appleton, Warrington WA4 5EA

Detached bungalow · Built 1967-1975 · 101 m² · Owner-occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

EC for £9,278 · £4,639 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Hot water cylinder insulation£15 – £400£1821.1 yrs+6.3 pts
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£2134.7 yrs+7.4 pts · reaches D
Heating controls£350 – £450£785.2 yrs+2.7 pts
Low energy lighting£70£97.5 yrs+0.3 pts
Band A condensing boiler£2,200 – £3,000£13119.9 yrs+4.6 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£16530.2 yrs+5.8 pts · reaches C
Solar photovoltaic panels(optional, beyond C)£9,000 – £14,000£19750+ yrs+6.9 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

£2,104
per year at grade E
£1,128
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £779 a year — a 8.4% annual return on £9,278.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2013, states £1,373 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

14 July 2016£345,000
14 July 2000£170,000

Estimated today: £533,045 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Willow Lane: 96 sales since 1995 · £436,531 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Stretton St Matthew's CofE Primary SchoolPrimary0.8 mi
Broomfields Junior SchoolPrimary0.9 mi
St Monica's Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary0.9 mi
Bridgewater High SchoolSecondary0.9 miProgress 8 +0.20 · average (2023/24)
Sir Thomas Boteler Church of England High SchoolSecondary2.0 miProgress 8 -0.24 · below average (2023/24)
Cardinal Newman Catholic High SchoolSecondary2.5 miProgress 8 -0.19 · 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.

4.6
crimes a month
23
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 43% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01012449, to 2026-05. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Willow Lane

How this home sits against its street.

47
graded homes
57.3
average score
D
most common grade
-11.3
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.