Gorse Acre, Holmsley Road, New Milton BH25 5TR

Detached house · Built 1950-1966 · 268 m² · Rented (Private) · Boiler and radiators, LPG

Upgrade Plan

ED for £10,500 · £10,500 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£9210.9 yrs+3.0 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£11439.5 yrs+3.8 pts
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£12340.7 yrs+4.1 pts · reaches D
Solar water heating(optional, beyond D)£4,000 – £6,000£9550+ yrs+3.1 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

£2,407
per year at grade E
£1,983
per year at grade D

The full plan saves £329 a year — a 3.1% annual return on £10,500.

Energy costs as modelled on the certificate, not a bill. This fuel has too few recent certificates to restate at today's prices.

Sold prices

8 April 2024£1,145,000
5 August 2015£900,000
30 October 2008£875,000
30 October 2008£875,000
10 February 1997£223,000

Estimated today: £1,126,631 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Holmsley Road: 24 sales since 1995 · £1,032,800 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Tiptoe Primary SchoolPrimary1.6 mi
Ashley Junior SchoolPrimary2.6 mi
Bransgore Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary2.6 mi
The Arnewood SchoolSecondary2.7 miProgress 8 -0.84 · well below average (2023/24)
Highcliffe SchoolSecondary3.6 miProgress 8 -0.05 · average (2023/24)
The Grange SchoolSecondary4.9 miProgress 8 +0.27 · 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.

8.7
crimes a month
78
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 47% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01022998, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Holmsley Road

How this home sits against its street.

12
graded homes
65.8
average score
C
most common grade
-18.8
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.