Blacksmiths, Crows Green, Bardfield Saling, Braintree CM7 5EB

Detached house · Built 1967-1975 · 233 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, oil

Upgrade Plan

DC for £13,165 · £13,165 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£1099.1 yrs+2.5 pts
Low energy lighting£65£610.1 yrs+0.1 pts
Room-in-roof insulation£1,500 – £2,700£20210.4 yrs+4.5 pts
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£14734.1 yrs+3.3 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£11444.0 yrs+2.5 pts · reaches C
Solar photovoltaic panels(optional, beyond C)£5,000 – £8,000£13647.9 yrs+3.0 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

£2,630
per year at grade D
£1,916
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £578 a year — a 4.4% annual return on £13,165.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2018, states £1,481 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

18 May 2018£950,000
3 September 2007£735,000

Estimated today: £1,116,862 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Crows Green: 5 sales since 1995 · £950,000 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Stebbing Primary SchoolPrimary2.1 mi
Shalford Primary SchoolPrimary2.5 mi
Great Bardfield Primary SchoolPrimary2.9 mi
Tabor AcademySecondary3.9 miProgress 8 -0.41 · below average (2023/24)
Notley High School and Braintree Sixth FormSecondary5.0 miProgress 8 -0.11 · average (2023/24)
Alec Hunter AcademySecondary5.6 miProgress 8 -0.10 · 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.

6.4
crimes a month
58
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 36% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01021404, to 2026-05. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Crows Green

How this home sits against its street.

4
graded homes
49.8
average score
E
most common grade
+7.2
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.