Downs Cottage, Wills Lane, Bristol BS9 1FH

Detached house · Built before 1900 · 181 m² · Boiler and underfloor heating, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

ED for £1,400 · £1,400 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£1556.5 yrs+4.5 pts
Heating controls£350 – £450£567.1 yrs+1.6 pts · reaches D
Band A condensing boiler(optional, beyond D)£2,200 – £3,000£9527.4 yrs+2.8 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels(optional, beyond D)£9,000 – £14,000£14350+ yrs+4.1 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

£3,017
per year at grade E
£2,568
per year at grade D

The full plan saves £211 a year — a 15.1% annual return on £1,400.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2012, states £1,759 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

14 August 2013£700,000
18 January 2002£250,000

Estimated today: £1,409,820 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Wills Lane: 8 sales since 1995 · £1,187,500 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Elmlea Infant SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Westbury Park SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Elmlea Junior SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Redland Green SchoolSecondary0.8 miProgress 8 +0.59 · well above average (2023/24)
Cotham SchoolSecondary1.3 miProgress 8 +0.10 · average (2023/24)
E-Act Montpelier High SchoolSecondary1.5 miAttainment 8 57.3 · no Progress 8 published

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.

7.9
crimes a month
63
in the last 12 months
Anti-social behaviour
most common · 33% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01014714, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Wills Lane

How this home sits against its street.

3
graded homes
65
average score
C
most common grade
-15.0
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.