486 Ormskirk Road, Wigan WN5 9DG

Mid-Terrace house · Built 1900-1929 · 81 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

CB for £4,500 · £4,500 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£2750+ yrs+6.5 pts · reaches B
Solar water heating(optional, beyond B)£4,000 – £6,000£2250+ yrs+5.5 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

£932
per year at grade C
£883
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £27 a year — a 0.6% annual return on £4,500.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2025, states £784 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

20 June 2005£135,000
28 June 2002£38,000
31 October 1997£27,913

Estimated today: £259,542 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Ormskirk Road: 824 sales since 1995 · £113,167 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
St Cuthbert's Catholic Primary School WiganPrimary0.3 mi
Highfield St Matthew's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Westfield Community SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Dean Trust WiganSecondary0.8 miProgress 8 -1.12 · well below average (2023/24)
St Peter's Catholic High SchoolSecondary1.3 miProgress 8 -0.12 · average (2023/24)
The Deanery Church of England High School and Sixth Form CollegeSecondary1.6 miProgress 8 -0.31 · 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
2
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 100% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01006354, to 2026-05. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Ormskirk Road

How this home sits against its street.

436
graded homes
61.2
average score
D
most common grade
+14.8
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.