18 Swallow Path, Chelmsford CM2 8XT

Mid-Terrace house · Built 1967-1975 · 77 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

CB for £10,500 · £10,500 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£4024.7 yrs+3.2 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£5050+ yrs+3.9 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£4250+ yrs+3.3 pts · reaches B
Solid wall insulation(optional, beyond B)£4,000 – £14,000£5950+ yrs+4.6 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

£984
per year at grade C
£793
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £132 a year — a 1.3% annual return on £10,500.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2023, states £1,270 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

22 September 2023£320,000
20 May 2016£282,000
11 September 2009£180,000
6 February 2004£149,000
26 March 1999£71,500
18 May 1998£72,500
2 April 1996£57,500

Estimated today: £326,445 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Swallow Path: 68 sales since 1995 · £330,928 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Mildmay Primary SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Beehive Lane Community Primary SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
St Michael's Church of England Voluntary Aided Junior SchoolPrimary0.7 mi
Moulsham High SchoolSecondary0.6 miProgress 8 +0.67 · well above average (2023/24)
Great Baddow High SchoolSecondary0.9 miProgress 8 +0.03 · average (2023/24)
Hylands SchoolSecondary1.8 miProgress 8 -0.86 · 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.

4.4
crimes a month
22
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 36% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01021559, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Swallow Path

How this home sits against its street.

21
graded homes
69.2
average score
C
most common grade
+3.8
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.