8 Farthing Close, Braintree CM7 9DN

Semi-Detached house · Built 1996-2002 · 78 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DB for £19,500 · £9,750 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Heating controls£350 – £450£2416.9 yrs+1.8 pts
Band A condensing boiler£2,200 – £3,000£4050+ yrs+3.0 pts · reaches C
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£6550+ yrs+4.9 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£5050+ yrs+3.8 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£5,000 – £8,000£6050+ yrs+4.5 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

£1,122
per year at grade D
£883
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £239 a year — a 1.2% annual return on £19,500.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2018, states £723 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

21 November 2018£265,000
13 August 2001£104,000
28 November 1997£74,000
6 September 1996£76,500

Estimated today: £308,055 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Farthing Close: 113 sales since 1995 · £256,611 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Lyons Hall SchoolPrimary0.1 mi
Great Bradfords Junior SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Great Bradfords Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Alec Hunter AcademySecondary0.9 miProgress 8 -0.10 · average (2023/24)
Tabor AcademySecondary1.6 miProgress 8 -0.41 · below average (2023/24)
Notley High School and Braintree Sixth FormSecondary1.7 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.

3.3
crimes a month
23
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 57% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01021352, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Farthing Close

How this home sits against its street.

27
graded homes
69.3
average score
C
most common grade
-2.3
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.