The Longwood, Off Lyons Lane, Appleton, Warrington WA4 5ND

Detached house · Built 1930-1949 · 260 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, oil

Upgrade Plan

DC for £25,750 · £25,750 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£5,000 – £10,000£30724.5 yrs+4.7 pts
Solid wall insulation£7,500 – £11,000£33227.9 yrs+5.0 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£8,000 – £10,000£28431.7 yrs+4.3 pts · reaches C

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

£3,279
per year at grade D
£2,357
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £922 a year — a 3.6% annual return on £25,750.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2025, states £3,141 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

23 September 2005£770,000
19 April 2004£400,000

Estimated today: £1,375,647 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Off Lyons Lane: 2 sales since 1995

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Broomfields Junior SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
St Monica's Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary0.7 mi
Grappenhall Heys Community Primary SchoolPrimary0.7 mi
Bridgewater High SchoolSecondary0.7 miProgress 8 +0.20 · average (2023/24)
Sir Thomas Boteler Church of England High SchoolSecondary1.7 miProgress 8 -0.24 · below average (2023/24)
Cardinal Newman Catholic High SchoolSecondary2.2 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.

3.9
crimes a month
27
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 30% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01012446, 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.