Fossil House, West End, Ampleforth, York YO62 4DX

Mid-Terrace house · Built before 1900 · 163 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, oil

Upgrade Plan

EA for £43,550 · £10,888 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Heating controls£350 – £450£884.6 yrs+3.3 pts
Low energy lighting£50£114.7 yrs+0.4 pts
Band A condensing boiler£2,200 – £3,000£14817.6 yrs+5.6 pts · reaches D
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£18726.7 yrs+7.0 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£5,000 – £8,000£22329.1 yrs+8.4 pts · reaches C
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£26134.5 yrs+9.8 pts · reaches B
Wind turbine£15,000 – £25,000£20050+ yrs+7.5 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

£2,653
per year at grade E
£1,536
per year at grade A

The full plan saves £1,117 a year — a 2.6% annual return on £43,550.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2017, states £1,623 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

26 April 2018£565,000

Estimated today: £727,348 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

West End: 91 sales since 1995 · £323,624 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
St Benedict's Catholic Primary School - a Catholic voluntary academyPrimary0.3 mi
Helmsley Community Primary SchoolPrimary3.9 mi
Husthwaite Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4.6 mi
Outwood Academy EasingwoldSecondary6.8 miProgress 8 +0.55 · well above 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.

4.2
crimes a month
38
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 45% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01027775, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

West End

How this home sits against its street.

51
graded homes
41.3
average score
F
most common grade
+8.7
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.