The Nutshell, Parsonage Lane, Howe Street, Chelmsford CM3 1BS

Detached house · Built 1996-2002 · 127 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, oil

Upgrade Plan

DC for £5,500 · £5,500 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Solar water heating£4,000 – £7,000£2350+ yrs+2.3 pts · reaches C
Solar photovoltaic panels(optional, beyond C)£8,000 – £10,000£2750+ yrs+2.7 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

£1,205
per year at grade D
£1,155
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £23 a year — a 0.4% annual return on £5,500.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2026, states £1,323 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

27 February 2015£447,500

Estimated today: £673,946 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Parsonage Lane: 18 sales since 1995

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Great Waltham Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolPrimary0.9 mi
Little Waltham Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolPrimary1.1 mi
Ford End Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary1.8 mi
Chelmer Valley High SchoolSecondary2.3 miProgress 8 +0.25 · above average (2023/24)
St John Payne Catholic School, ChelmsfordSecondary3.6 miProgress 8 +0.10 · average (2023/24)
The Boswells SchoolSecondary4.0 miProgress 8 -0.16 · 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.

7.2
crimes a month
43
in the last 12 months
Vehicle crime
most common · 23% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01021539, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Parsonage Lane

How this home sits against its street.

8
graded homes
57.1
average score
D
most common grade
+10.9
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.