3 Walnut Avenue, Wigan WN1 3XE

Semi-Detached house · Built 1950-1966 · 90 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

CB for £10,500 · £10,500 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£4820.6 yrs+4.8 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£4550+ yrs+4.5 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£3850+ yrs+3.7 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

£1,128
per year at grade C
£997
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £131 a year — a 1.2% annual return on £10,500.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2019, states £715 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

26 July 2023£110,000
11 February 2008£115,000
24 June 2005£59,000
14 June 2002£44,500
22 February 2002£29,500

Estimated today: £123,778 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Walnut Avenue: 17 sales since 1995 · £97,169 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Canon Sharples Church of England Primary School and NurseryPrimary0.3 mi
Mab's Cross Primary SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
St Mary and St John Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Dean Trust Rose BridgeSecondary0.8 miProgress 8 -0.60 · well below average (2023/24)
The Deanery Church of England High School and Sixth Form CollegeSecondary0.8 miProgress 8 -0.31 · below average (2023/24)
St John Fisher Catholic High SchoolSecondary1.3 miProgress 8 -0.58 · well below 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.

1
crimes a month
1
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 100% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01006390, to 2025-10. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Walnut Avenue

How this home sits against its street.

14
graded homes
64.8
average score
C
most common grade
+6.2
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.