8 Marsden Drive, Brierfield, Nelson BB9 0PL

Semi-Detached house · Built 1967-1975 · 73 m² · Unknown · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DB for £10,560 · £5,280 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£7413.6 yrs+6.2 pts · reaches C
Low energy lighting£60£318.6 yrs+0.3 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£6850+ yrs+5.7 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£5750+ yrs+4.8 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

£1,191
per year at grade D
£989
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £202 a year — a 1.9% annual return on £10,560.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2020, states £762 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

15 May 2020£97,000
5 February 1998£50,500

Estimated today: £144,538 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Marsden Drive: 6 sales since 1995

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Nelson St Paul's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary AcademyPrimary0.3 mi
Marsden Community Primary SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Marsden Heights Community CollegeSecondary0.2 miProgress 8 +0.14 · average (2023/24)
Sir John Thursby Community CollegeSecondary1.5 miProgress 8 -0.29 · below average (2023/24)
Pendle Vale CollegeSecondary1.6 miProgress 8 +0.07 · 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.

10.7
crimes a month
118
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 59% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01025187, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.