522 Doncaster Road, Crofton, Wakefield WF4 1LR

Detached house · Built 1900-1929 · 107 m² · Owner-occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

FC for £17,445 · £5,815 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Flue gas heat recovery£900£2483.6 yrs+7.3 pts · reaches E
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£2553.9 yrs+7.5 pts
Low energy lighting£45£114.0 yrs+0.3 pts
Heating controls£350 – £450£934.3 yrs+2.7 pts
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£1915.2 yrs+5.6 pts · reaches D
Band A condensing boiler£2,200 – £3,000£15716.6 yrs+4.6 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£9,000 – £14,000£23648.7 yrs+6.9 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

£2,721
per year at grade F
£1,530
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £1,191 a year — a 6.8% annual return on £17,445.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2014, states £1,890 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

31 January 2002£144,000

Estimated today: £464,889 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Doncaster Road: 193 sales since 1995 · £224,959 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Shay Lane Primary (J and I) SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Crofton Junior SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
Crofton Infant SchoolPrimary0.7 mi
Crofton AcademySecondary0.6 miProgress 8 +0.26 · above average (2023/24)
St Thomas à Becket Catholic Secondary School, A Voluntary AcademySecondary2.1 miProgress 8 +0.29 · above average (2023/24)
Outwood Academy FreestonSecondary2.3 miProgress 8 -0.18 · 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.

12.9
crimes a month
142
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 45% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01011774, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Doncaster Road

How this home sits against its street.

98
graded homes
60
average score
D
most common grade
-23.0
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.