68a Adelaide Drive, Colchester CO2 8UX

Mid-Terrace house · Built 1983-1990 · 50 m² · Electric storage heaters

Upgrade Plan

DC for £24,300 · £24,300 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
High-retention storage heaters£600 – £1,500£5020.9 yrs+1.3 pts
Wind turbine£1,500 – £4,000£2150+ yrs+0.6 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£2050+ yrs+0.5 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£11,000 – £20,000£2450+ 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

£1,147
per year at grade D
£1,032
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £115 a year — a 0.5% annual return on £24,300.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2012, states £558 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

9 February 2021£180,000
4 May 2012£95,000
1 November 2006£110,000
10 June 2002£72,500

Estimated today: £206,477 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Adelaide Drive: 215 sales since 1995 · £234,241 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Cherry Tree AcademyPrimary0.2 mi
Monkwick Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary0.7 mi
Monkwick Junior SchoolPrimary0.7 mi
The Thomas Lord Audley SchoolSecondary0.6 miProgress 8 -0.13 · average (2023/24)
Paxman AcademySecondary2.0 miProgress 8 -0.17 · average (2023/24)
Colchester Royal Grammar SchoolSecondary2.1 miProgress 8 +1.09 · well above 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.

10.8
crimes a month
119
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 52% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01021641, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Adelaide Drive

How this home sits against its street.

80
graded homes
65.2
average score
C
most common grade
+0.8
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.