Chapter House, Dropping Lane, Bruton BA10 0NG

Detached house · Built before 1900 · 166 m² · Owner-occupied · Boiler and radiators, oil

Upgrade Plan

DB for £15,410 · £7,705 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£4202.4 yrs+9.2 pts
Low energy lighting£60£183.3 yrs+0.4 pts
Wind turbine£1,500 – £4,000£3487.9 yrs+7.7 pts · reaches C
Band A condensing boiler£2,200 – £3,000£25810.1 yrs+5.7 pts
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£45419.8 yrs+10.0 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

£2,747
per year at grade D
£1,249
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £1,498 a year — a 9.7% annual return on £15,410.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2014, states £2,384 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

13 September 2019£565,000
16 October 2000£171,000
5 July 1996£98,000

Estimated today: £690,087 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Dropping Lane: 20 sales since 1995 · £455,429 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Bruton Primary SchoolPrimary1.2 mi
Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic PrimaryPrimary3.4 mi
Upton Noble CofE VC Primary SchoolPrimary3.5 mi
Sexey's SchoolSecondary1.4 miProgress 8 +0.33 · above average (2023/24)
King Arthur's SchoolSecondary3.3 miProgress 8 -0.21 · below average (2023/24)
Ansford AcademySecondary3.4 miProgress 8 -0.42 · 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.

8.6
crimes a month
86
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 34% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01029158, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Dropping Lane

How this home sits against its street.

13
graded homes
54
average score
E
most common grade
+1.0
this home vs street
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