7 Cornish Hall End, Braintree CM7 4HD

Detached house · Built 1900-1929 · 100 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, oil

Upgrade Plan

EC for £31,485 · £15,743 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Heating controls£220 – £250£763.1 yrs+2.6 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £7,000£16233.9 yrs+5.6 pts
Floor insulation£5,000 – £10,000£20935.8 yrs+7.2 pts · reaches D
Solid wall insulation£7,500 – £11,000£22640.9 yrs+7.8 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£8,000 – £10,000£19446.5 yrs+6.7 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

£1,981
per year at grade E
£1,113
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £868 a year — a 2.8% annual return on £31,485.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2026, states £2,175 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

16 August 2016£350,000

Estimated today: £442,569 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Finchingfield St John the Baptist CofE Primary AcademyPrimary2.3 mi
Great Sampford Community Primary SchoolPrimary2.5 mi
Steeple Bumpstead Primary SchoolPrimary2.8 mi
Hedingham School and Sixth FormSecondary6.0 miProgress 8 -0.27 · below average (2023/24)
Castle Manor AcademySecondary6.0 miProgress 8 -0.13 · average (2023/24)
Samuel Ward AcademySecondary6.2 miProgress 8 -0.23 · 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.

9.5
crimes a month
104
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 49% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01021412, 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.