Downs Croft, The Downs, Manuden, Bishop's Stortford CM23 1EA

Detached house · Built before 1900 · 182 m² · Boiler and radiators, oil

Upgrade Plan

FE for £14,428 · £14,428 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Heating controls£400typical£2131.9 yrs+3.0 pts
Low energy lighting£30 – £75typical£262.1 yrs+0.4 pts
Band A condensing boiler£2,600typical£3597.2 yrs+5.0 pts
Wind turbine£2,750 – £20,000typical£48423.5 yrs+6.7 pts · reaches E

Grants verified 20 August 2026. Costs are the register’s indicative ranges, except where marked typical, which this certificate did not price and which are taken instead from comparable homes of the same type. 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

£4,115
per year at grade F
£3,034
per year at grade E

The full plan saves £1,081 a year — a 7.5% annual return on £14,428.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2010, states £2,770 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

31 January 2011£855,000

Estimated today: £1,502,419 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

The Downs: 2 sales since 1995

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Manuden Primary SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Bentfield Primary School and NurseryPrimary1.2 mi
Magna Carta Primary AcademyPrimary1.5 mi
Forest Hall SchoolSecondary2.3 miProgress 8 +0.27 · above average (2023/24)
Avanti Grange Secondary SchoolSecondary2.4 miNot in the KS4 performance tables
Birchwood High SchoolSecondary3.0 miProgress 8 -0.08 · 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.

3.4
crimes a month
31
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 42% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01022089, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.