Hyde Farm Cottage, Hyde Lane, Danbury, Chelmsford CM3 4LN

Detached house · Built 1996-2002 · 182 m² · Owner-Occupied · No system present: electric heaters assumed

Upgrade Plan

FB for £32,750 · £8,188 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Air or ground source heat pump£7,500 Boiler Upgrade Scheme£0 – £22,500£1,7196.5 yrs+29.9 pts · reaches D
Solar photovoltaic panels£8,000 – £10,000£62414.4 yrs+10.9 pts · reaches C
Wind turbine£5,000 – £20,000£55822.4 yrs+9.7 pts · reaches B
Low energy lighting(optional, beyond B)£930 – £1,085£2934.2 yrs+0.5 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

£4,847
per year at grade F
£1,916
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £2,902 a year — a 8.9% annual return on £32,750.

Energy costs as modelled on the certificate, not a bill. This fuel has too few recent certificates to restate at today's prices.

Sold prices

17 March 2025£520,000
14 February 1997£140,000

Estimated today: £536,636 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Hyde Lane: 94 sales since 1995 · £865,047 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Priory Primary School, BicknacrePrimary0.9 mi
St John Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School DanburyPrimary1.5 mi
Danbury Park Community Primary SchoolPrimary1.8 mi
Plume SchoolSecondary3.7 miProgress 8 -0.37 · below average (2023/24)
The Sandon SchoolSecondary3.9 miProgress 8 +0.15 · average (2023/24)
William de Ferrers SchoolSecondary4.0 miProgress 8 -0.41 · 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.

11.1
crimes a month
89
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 56% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01021570, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Hyde Lane

How this home sits against its street.

60
graded homes
61.7
average score
D
most common grade
-25.7
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.