2 Beaufort Close, Widnes WA8 8JF

Detached house · Built 1967-1975 · 85 m² · Owner-occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DB for £18,970 · £9,485 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£1656.1 yrs+7.0 pts
Heating controls£350 – £450£606.6 yrs+2.5 pts
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£1238.1 yrs+5.2 pts · reaches C
Low energy lighting£70£79.7 yrs+0.3 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£12839.0 yrs+5.4 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£9,000 – £14,000£15350+ yrs+6.5 pts · reaches B

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

£1,724
per year at grade D
£1,087
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £637 a year — a 3.4% annual return on £18,970.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2013, states £1,034 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

29 November 2013£175,000

Estimated today: £311,648 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Beaufort Close: 2 sales since 1995

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Our Lady of Perpetual Succour Catholic Primary SchoolPrimaryunder 0.1 mi
St Michael with St Thomas CE Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Oakfield Community Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Ormiston Chadwick AcademySecondary1.0 miProgress 8 -0.23 · below average (2023/24)
Saints Peter and Paul Catholic High SchoolSecondary1.8 miProgress 8 -0.61 · well below average (2023/24)
Wade Deacon High SchoolSecondary2.0 miProgress 8 +0.17 · 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.

5.3
crimes a month
48
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 58% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01012389, 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.