8 Carraways, Witham CM8 1XT

End-Terrace flat · Built 1991-1995 · 54 m² · Rented (Private) · Electric storage heaters

Upgrade Plan

CB for £1,500 · £1,500 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
High-retention storage heaters£1,200 – £1,800£7420.2 yrs+2.4 pts · reaches B
Party wall insulation(optional, beyond B)£300 – £600£2121.9 yrs+0.6 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

£685
per year at grade C
£590
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £74 a year — a 4.9% annual return on £1,500.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2023, states £708 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

2 August 2024£157,500
14 July 2000£59,995
12 December 1997£44,500

Estimated today: £157,334 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Carraways: 192 sales since 1995 · £245,425 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Howbridge Church of England Junior SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Howbridge Infant SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Holy Family Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary0.7 mi
Lift MaltingsSecondary0.7 miProgress 8 -0.64 · well below average (2023/24)
Lift New RickstonesSecondary1.9 miProgress 8 -0.43 · below average (2023/24)
Plume SchoolSecondary4.5 miProgress 8 -0.37 · 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.

7.4
crimes a month
81
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 43% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01021424, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Carraways

How this home sits against its street.

48
graded homes
69.2
average score
C
most common grade
+10.8
this home vs street
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