2 Eves Villas, Main Road, Bicknacre, Chelmsford CM3 4HN

Semi-Detached house · Built 1930-1949 · 76 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, oil

Upgrade Plan

EC for £19,500 · £9,750 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£9810.2 yrs+7.1 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£9149.6 yrs+6.6 pts · reaches D
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£7650+ yrs+5.5 pts
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£10650+ yrs+7.7 pts · reaches C

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

£1,360
per year at grade E
£989
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £371 a year — a 1.9% annual return on £19,500.

Energy costs as modelled on the certificate, not a bill.

Sold prices

28 June 1999£96,000
26 September 1997£86,000

Estimated today: £481,892 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Eves Villas: 4 sales since 1995

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
St Mary's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary0.8 mi
East Hanningfield Church of England Primary AcademyPrimary1.5 mi
Priory Primary School, BicknacrePrimary1.5 mi
William de Ferrers SchoolSecondary2.5 miProgress 8 -0.41 · below average (2023/24)
The Sandon SchoolSecondary4.2 miProgress 8 +0.15 · average (2023/24)
Beauchamps High SchoolSecondary5.0 miProgress 8 -0.02 · 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.

8.2
crimes a month
82
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 40% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01021535, 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.