3 Upper Whatcombe, Frome BA11 3SA

Detached house · Built 1976-1982 · 78 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

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MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation(optional, beyond C)£5,000 – £10,000£5250+ yrs+4.2 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels(optional, beyond C)£8,000 – £10,000£4850+ yrs+3.8 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

£1,093
per year at grade C
£993
per year at grade C

Energy costs as modelled on the certificate, not a bill.

Sold prices

5 April 2016£270,000
12 January 1998£74,950

Estimated today: £378,771 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Upper Whatcombe: 129 sales since 1995 · £243,758 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
St Louis Catholic Primary School, FromePrimary0.3 mi
Vallis First SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Trinity Church of England First SchoolPrimary0.7 mi
Frome Community CollegeSecondary0.9 miAttainment 8 42.7 · no Progress 8 published
Writhlington SchoolSecondary5.6 miProgress 8 +0.08 · average (2023/24)
Somerset Studio SchoolSecondary5.6 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.

14
crimes a month
154
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 48% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01029044, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Upper Whatcombe

How this home sits against its street.

48
graded homes
68.3
average score
C
most common grade
+1.7
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.