Highfields, Mill Lane, Cressing, Braintree CM77 8NX

Detached house · Pre-1900 · Boiler and radiators, oil

Upgrade Plan

FE for £15,789 · £15,789 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Hot water cylinder insulation£23 – £300typical£1611.0 yrs+3.7 pts
Loft insulation£225typical£902.5 yrs+2.1 pts
Low energy lighting£30 – £75typical£86.4 yrs+0.2 pts
Cavity wall insulation£1,000typical£1417.1 yrs+3.3 pts
Band A condensing boiler£2,600typical£11622.4 yrs+2.7 pts
Solar water heating£5,000typical£14734.1 yrs+3.4 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£4,500 – £9,000typical£17538.6 yrs+4.0 pts · reaches E
Wind turbine(optional, beyond E)£2,750 – £20,000typical£15750+ yrs+3.6 pts

Grants verified 20 August 2026. Costs are the register’s indicative ranges, except where marked typical, which this certificate did not price and which are taken instead from comparable homes of the same type. 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

£2,682
per year at grade F
£1,687
per year at grade E

The full plan saves £838 a year — a 5.3% annual return on £15,789.

Energy costs as modelled on the certificate, not a bill. This fuel has too few recent certificates to restate at today's prices.

Sold prices

24 July 2009£395,000
8 July 2004£458,000
5 August 1996£147,000

Estimated today: £802,794 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Mill Lane: 105 sales since 1995 · £415,758 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Cressing Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
White Notley Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolPrimary1.3 mi
Beckers Green Primary SchoolPrimary1.5 mi
Alec Hunter AcademySecondary1.5 miProgress 8 -0.10 · average (2023/24)
Notley High School and Braintree Sixth FormSecondary1.9 miProgress 8 -0.11 · average (2023/24)
Lift New RickstonesSecondary3.1 miProgress 8 -0.43 · below 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.

21.6
crimes a month
238
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 43% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01021380, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Mill Lane

How this home sits against its street.

61
graded homes
61.6
average score
D
most common grade
-40.6
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.