8a Cromwell Road, Hove BN3 3EA

Mid-Terrace flat · Built 1900-1929 · 71 m² · Owner-occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

D → B for £18,045 · £9,023 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Draughtproofing—£80 – £120£1290.8 yrs+4.3 pts
Floor insulation—£800 – £1,200£1536.5 yrs+5.1 pts
Low energy lighting—£45£76.7 yrs+0.2 pts
Heating controls—£350 – £450£567.2 yrs+1.9 pts · reaches C
Band A condensing boiler—£2,200 – £3,000£9427.7 yrs+3.1 pts
Solid wall insulation—£4,000 – £14,000£16550+ yrs+5.5 pts
Double glazing—£3,300 – £6,500£5550+ yrs+1.8 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

£1,280
per year at grade D
£622
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £658 a year — a 3.6% annual return on £18,045.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2013, states £768 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

6 October 2022£438,000
26 August 2020£355,000
23 July 2015£315,000
19 August 2009£185,000
30 June 2006£221,000
14 December 1999£92,500
5 February 1999£64,000
18 April 1997£54,950

Estimated today: £403,374 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Cromwell Road: 896 sales since 1995 · £323,520 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
St Andrew's CofE (Aided) Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi—
Brunswick Primary SchoolPrimary0.5 mi—
Cottesmore St Mary's Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary0.5 mi—
Cardinal Newman Catholic SchoolSecondary0.5 miProgress 8 +0.56 · well above average (2023/24)
Hove Park School and Sixth Form CentreSecondary0.7 miProgress 8 -0.13 · average (2023/24)
Blatchington Mill SchoolSecondary1.1 miProgress 8 +0.30 · 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.

16.4
crimes a month
180
in the last 12 months
Anti-social behaviour
most common · 28% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01016873, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Cromwell Road

How this home sits against its street.

415
graded homes
62.7
average score
D
most common grade
-3.7
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.