Yew Tree Cottage, Dunmow Road, Great Bardfield, Braintree CM7 4SE

Detached house · Built before 1900 · 131 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, oil

Upgrade Plan

ED for £3,610 · £3,610 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Draughtproofing£120£1560.8 yrs+3.9 pts
Low energy lighting£40£84.9 yrs+0.2 pts
Heating controls£450£676.7 yrs+1.7 pts
Floor insulation£6,000 – £0£18516.2 yrs+4.6 pts · reaches D
Double glazing(optional, beyond D)£6,500 – £500£6750+ yrs+1.7 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

£2,165
per year at grade E
£1,681
per year at grade D

The full plan saves £417 a year — a 11.6% annual return on £3,610.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2016, states £1,423 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

20 March 2020£520,000
12 October 2008£495,000
26 February 2003£369,998

Estimated today: £607,776 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Dunmow Road: 121 sales since 1995 · £531,638 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Great Bardfield Primary SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Finchingfield St John the Baptist CofE Primary AcademyPrimary1.8 mi
Wethersfield CofE VC Primary SchoolPrimary2.4 mi
Tabor AcademySecondary6.2 miProgress 8 -0.41 · below average (2023/24)
Hedingham School and Sixth FormSecondary7.2 miProgress 8 -0.27 · below average (2023/24)
Notley High School and Braintree Sixth FormSecondary7.5 miProgress 8 -0.11 · 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.

Dunmow Road

How this home sits against its street.

43
graded homes
51.6
average score
E
most common grade
-6.6
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.