Barnlea, Lower Burnham Road, Latchingdon, Chelmsford CM3 6HQ

Detached house · Built 1950-1966 · 220 m² · Owner-occupied · Boiler and underfloor heating, oil

Upgrade Plan

DB for £28,515 · £14,258 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£2244.5 yrs+4.4 pts
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£1686.0 yrs+3.3 pts
Wind turbine£1,500 – £4,000£18614.8 yrs+3.6 pts
Low energy lighting£165£1016.8 yrs+0.2 pts
Band A condensing boiler£2,200 – £3,000£13818.9 yrs+2.7 pts · reaches C
High-performance doors£8,500 – £500£17925.1 yrs+3.5 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£17428.7 yrs+3.4 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£9,000 – £14,000£20850+ yrs+4.0 pts · reaches B

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

£2,894
per year at grade D
£1,607
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £1,287 a year — a 4.5% annual return on £28,515.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2013, states £2,365 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

24 August 2001£237,500

Estimated today: £756,394 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Lower Burnham Road: 24 sales since 1995 · £790,000 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Christchurch Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary1.5 mi
Cold Norton Primary SchoolPrimary1.6 mi
Lift AshingdonPrimary2.9 mi
William de Ferrers SchoolSecondary3.5 miProgress 8 -0.41 · below average (2023/24)
Lift GreenswardSecondary3.7 miProgress 8 -0.08 · average (2023/24)
The King Edmund SchoolSecondary4.1 miProgress 8 -0.83 · 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.

4.8
crimes a month
43
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 42% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01021903, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Lower Burnham Road

How this home sits against its street.

15
graded homes
52.7
average score
D
most common grade
+4.3
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.