32 Broad Road, Braintree CM7 9RT

Detached house · Built 1930-1949 · 130 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DC for £6,063 · £6,063 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Hot water cylinder insulation£15 – £30£890.3 yrs+3.3 pts
Low energy lighting£40£58.8 yrs+0.2 pts
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£7812.9 yrs+2.9 pts
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£10448.2 yrs+3.9 pts · reaches C
Solar water heating(optional, beyond C)£4,000 – £6,000£8050+ yrs+3.0 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels(optional, beyond C)£5,000 – £8,000£9650+ yrs+3.6 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

£1,956
per year at grade D
£1,505
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £274 a year — a 4.5% annual return on £6,063.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2015, states £1,348 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

8 July 2016£470,000
24 August 2006£249,995

Estimated today: £601,888 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Broad Road: 216 sales since 1995 · £447,731 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Great Bradfords Junior SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Great Bradfords Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
John Bunyan Primary School and NurseryPrimary0.8 mi
Tabor AcademySecondary1.0 miProgress 8 -0.41 · below average (2023/24)
Alec Hunter AcademySecondary1.5 miProgress 8 -0.10 · average (2023/24)
Notley High School and Braintree Sixth FormSecondary1.8 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.

6.9
crimes a month
48
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 33% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01021356, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Broad Road

How this home sits against its street.

98
graded homes
63.8
average score
D
most common grade
-3.8
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.