4 Martens Meadow, Braintree CM7 3LB

Detached house · Built 1983-1990 · 72 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DB for £16,540 · £8,270 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Low energy lighting£40£313.3 yrs+0.3 pts
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£6950+ yrs+6.2 pts · reaches C
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£5350+ yrs+4.8 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£5,000 – £8,000£6450+ yrs+5.7 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

£1,182
per year at grade D
£993
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £189 a year — a 1.1% annual return on £16,540.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2019, states £746 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

19 November 2020£288,000
17 March 2006£190,000
28 January 2000£90,000
21 December 1998£87,500

Estimated today: £323,798 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Martens Meadow: 148 sales since 1995 · £306,523 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Beckers Green Primary SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Lyons Hall SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Great Bradfords Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary0.8 mi
Alec Hunter AcademySecondary0.5 miProgress 8 -0.10 · average (2023/24)
Notley High School and Braintree Sixth FormSecondary1.6 miProgress 8 -0.11 · average (2023/24)
Tabor AcademySecondary1.9 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.

13.9
crimes a month
153
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 36% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01021369, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Martens Meadow

How this home sits against its street.

35
graded homes
67.8
average score
C
most common grade
-2.8
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.