3a Halstead Road, Braintree CM7 5PB

Semi-Detached house · Built before 1900 · 92 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DB for £19,535 · £9,768 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Low energy lighting£35£65.5 yrs+0.2 pts
Cavity wall insulation£1,500 – £500£1089.3 yrs+4.2 pts
Band A condensing boiler£3,000 – £0£8916.9 yrs+3.4 pts
Floor insulation£6,000 – £0£14520.8 yrs+5.6 pts · reaches C
Solar water heating£6,000 – £0£11226.7 yrs+4.3 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£8,000 – £0£13429.9 yrs+5.2 pts
Solid wall insulation£14,000 – £0£15644.8 yrs+6.0 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

£1,621
per year at grade D
£871
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £750 a year — a 3.8% annual return on £19,535.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2016, states £1,115 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

13 April 2017£302,500
4 April 2014£225,000
11 January 2013£200,000

Estimated today: £382,740 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Halstead Road: 22 sales since 1995 · £353,000 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Bocking Primary SchoolPrimary1.5 mi
Gosfield Community Primary SchoolPrimary1.6 mi
Stisted Church of England Primary AcademyPrimary2.0 mi
Tabor AcademySecondary2.8 miProgress 8 -0.41 · below average (2023/24)
Alec Hunter AcademySecondary3.0 miProgress 8 -0.10 · average (2023/24)
The Ramsey Academy, HalsteadSecondary3.4 miProgress 8 -0.05 · 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
49
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 37% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01021381, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Halstead Road

How this home sits against its street.

14
graded homes
59.3
average score
D
most common grade
-2.3
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.