7 Orchards, Witham CM8 1DW

Detached house · Built 1983-1990 · 144 m² · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

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MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Heating controls(optional, beyond D)£400typical£745.4 yrs+1.7 pts
Low energy lighting(optional, beyond D)£30 – £75typical£95.9 yrs+0.2 pts
Band A condensing boiler(optional, beyond D)£2,600typical£12420.9 yrs+2.8 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels(optional, beyond D)£4,500 – £9,000typical£18736.1 yrs+4.3 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

£2,008
per year at grade D
£1,614
per year at grade D

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2010, states £1,239 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

22 December 2010£285,000
20 March 2006£290,000
13 December 2002£249,995
30 March 2000£190,000

Estimated today: £518,370 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Orchards: 25 sales since 1995 · £553,000 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Howbridge Infant SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Howbridge Church of England Junior SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Holy Family Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
Lift MaltingsSecondary0.2 miProgress 8 -0.64 · well below average (2023/24)
Lift New RickstonesSecondary1.4 miProgress 8 -0.43 · below average (2023/24)
Thurstable SchoolSecondary5.0 miProgress 8 -0.19 · 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.

19.2
crimes a month
211
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 34% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01021415, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Orchards

How this home sits against its street.

8
graded homes
67.6
average score
D
most common grade
-9.6
this home vs street
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