1 Bentham Way, Ely CB6 1BS

Detached house · Built 1976-1982 · 125 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DC for £5,500 · £5,500 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Heating controls£350 – £450£3710.7 yrs+1.6 pts
Low energy lighting£100£422.3 yrs+0.2 pts
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£10248.9 yrs+4.5 pts · reaches C
Solar water heating(optional, beyond C)£4,000 – £6,000£7950+ yrs+3.5 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels(optional, beyond C)£5,000 – £8,000£9550+ yrs+4.2 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

£1,614
per year at grade D
£1,296
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £144 a year — a 2.6% annual return on £5,500.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2016, states £1,143 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

2 November 2016£374,000
17 November 2005£235,000

Estimated today: £485,067 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Bentham Way: 85 sales since 1995 · £348,692 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Isle of Ely Primary SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Spring Meadow Infant SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Ely St Mary's CofE Junior SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Ely CollegeSecondary0.9 miProgress 8 +0.65 · well above average (2023/24)
Witchford Village CollegeSecondary2.9 miProgress 8 +0.05 · average (2023/24)
Vista Academy LittleportSecondary4.1 miProgress 8 -0.51 · well below 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.

10.3
crimes a month
113
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 45% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01018027, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Bentham Way

How this home sits against its street.

37
graded homes
62.1
average score
D
most common grade
+2.9
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.