Thatch Cottage, Grange Road, Wareham BH20 5AL

Detached house · Built before 1900 · 186 m² · Owner-Occupied · Air source heat pump, underfloor, electric

Upgrade Plan

DB for £28,800 · £14,400 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Draughtproofing£80 – £120£1760.6 yrs+5.5 pts
Heating controls£350 – £450£765.3 yrs+2.4 pts
Floor insulation£800 – £6,000£20916.3 yrs+6.5 pts · reaches C
Double glazing£3,300 – £6,500£7650+ yrs+2.3 pts
Wind turbine£15,000 – £25,000£17350+ yrs+5.4 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

£4,016
per year at grade D
£3,307
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £709 a year — a 2.5% annual return on £28,800.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2024, states £4,336 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

18 September 2024£950,000
29 April 2019£405,000

Estimated today: £947,013 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Grange Road: 27 sales since 1995 · £773,333 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Stoborough Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary1.0 mi
Wareham St Mary Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary1.7 mi
Corfe Castle Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3.2 mi
The Purbeck SchoolSecondary1.5 miProgress 8 +0.60 · well above average (2023/24)
Lytchett Minster SchoolSecondary6.0 miProgress 8 +0.38 · above average (2023/24)
The Cornerstone AcademySecondary6.1 miProgress 8 -0.03 · 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.

6.3
crimes a month
50
in the last 12 months
Other theft
most common · 26% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01020467, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Grange Road

How this home sits against its street.

19
graded homes
56.3
average score
E
most common grade
+3.7
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.