Windmill Cottage, Hillside Road, Backwell, Bristol BS48 3BL

Detached house · Built before 1900 · 162 m² · Boiler and radiators, oil

Upgrade Plan

DC for £12,410 · £12,410 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£1158.7 yrs+3.7 pts
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£8611.6 yrs+2.7 pts
Low energy lighting£60£511.9 yrs+0.2 pts
Wind turbine£1,500 – £4,000£9528.8 yrs+3.0 pts
Band A condensing boiler£2,200 – £3,000£7136.7 yrs+2.2 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£8950+ yrs+2.8 pts · reaches C
Solid wall insulation(optional, beyond C)£4,000 – £14,000£12550+ yrs+4.0 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels(optional, beyond C)£9,000 – £14,000£10750+ yrs+3.4 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

£2,153
per year at grade D
£1,460
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £462 a year — a 3.7% annual return on £12,410.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2012, states £1,482 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

25 June 2021£945,000
2 September 2013£610,000
21 July 2006£525,000

Estimated today: £1,125,318 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Hillside Road: 9 sales since 1995 · £667,500 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Backwell Church of England Junior SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
West Leigh Infant SchoolPrimary0.7 mi
St Francis Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary1.5 mi
Backwell SchoolSecondary0.7 miProgress 8 +0.21 · above average (2023/24)
Nailsea SchoolSecondary1.8 miProgress 8 +0.26 · above average (2023/24)
Gordano SchoolSecondary4.9 miProgress 8 -0.02 · 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.

4.8
crimes a month
43
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 33% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01014739, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Hillside Road

How this home sits against its street.

4
graded homes
48.8
average score
D
most common grade
+7.2
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.