Spinney Cottage, Braintree Road, Great Bardfield CM7 4PY

Detached house · Built before 1900 · 231 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, oil

Upgrade Plan

FD for £46,100 · £23,050 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Band A condensing boiler£2,200 – £3,000£6341.3 yrs+2.7 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£9547.4 yrs+4.1 pts · reaches E
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£10348.8 yrs+4.4 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£8050+ yrs+3.4 pts
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£11150+ yrs+4.8 pts
Wind turbine£15,000 – £25,000£8550+ yrs+3.6 pts · reaches D

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

£4,051
per year at grade F
£3,515
per year at grade D

The full plan saves £536 a year — a 1.2% annual return on £46,100.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2020, states £2,731 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

24 May 1996£175,000

Estimated today: £1,064,848 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Braintree Road: 71 sales since 1995 · £560,212 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Great Bardfield Primary SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
Wethersfield CofE VC Primary SchoolPrimary2.0 mi
Finchingfield St John the Baptist CofE Primary AcademyPrimary2.0 mi
Tabor AcademySecondary5.4 miProgress 8 -0.41 · below average (2023/24)
Notley High School and Braintree Sixth FormSecondary6.7 miProgress 8 -0.11 · average (2023/24)
Hedingham School and Sixth FormSecondary6.9 miProgress 8 -0.27 · 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.

4.9
crimes a month
34
in the last 12 months
Other theft
most common · 32% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01021411, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Braintree Road

How this home sits against its street.

28
graded homes
54
average score
D
most common grade
-19.0
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.