Chivers Farm, Swallows Cross, Doddinghurst, Brentwood CM15 0ST

Detached house · Built 1950-1966 · 302 m² · Owner-occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas, Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

CB for £15,385 · £15,385 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£1307.7 yrs+3.2 pts
Low energy lighting£135£623.7 yrs+0.1 pts
Wind turbine£1,500 – £4,000£10825.4 yrs+2.7 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£9,000 – £14,000£12150+ yrs+3.0 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

£2,679
per year at grade C
£2,314
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £365 a year — a 2.4% annual return on £15,385.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2013, states £1,636 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

21 February 2002£782,000

Estimated today: £2,307,908 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Swallows Cross: 5 sales since 1995

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Mountnessing Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary1.3 mi
Doddinghurst Infant SchoolPrimary1.4 mi
Doddinghurst Church of England Junior SchoolPrimary1.4 mi
Shenfield High SchoolSecondary1.8 miProgress 8 -0.30 · below average (2023/24)
Anglo European SchoolSecondary2.6 miProgress 8 +0.08 · average (2023/24)
Becket Keys Church of England Free SchoolSecondary2.8 miProgress 8 +0.42 · 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.

12
crimes a month
108
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 42% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01021444, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Swallows Cross

How this home sits against its street.

3
graded homes
66
average score
D
most common grade
+6.0
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.