159 Shrub End Road, Colchester CO3 4RF

Semi-Detached house · Built before 1900 · 119 m² · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

ED for £1,260 · £1,260 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Loft insulation£225typical£376.0 yrs+0.9 pts
Low energy lighting£20 – £50typical£310.2 yrs+0.1 pts
Cavity wall insulation£1,000typical£5917.0 yrs+1.4 pts · reaches D
Band A condensing boiler(optional, beyond D)£2,600typical£4850+ yrs+1.2 pts
Solar water heating(optional, beyond D)£5,000typical£6150+ yrs+1.5 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels(optional, beyond D)£4,500 – £9,000typical£7350+ yrs+1.8 pts
Solid wall insulation(optional, beyond D)£9,000typical£8550+ yrs+2.1 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

£2,007
per year at grade E
£1,640
per year at grade D

The full plan saves £100 a year — a 7.9% annual return on £1,260.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2011, states £1,290 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

5 August 2011£249,995
10 June 2004£217,500
24 January 2003£204,000

Estimated today: £449,991 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Shrub End Road: 328 sales since 1995 · £404,202 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Prettygate Junior SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Prettygate Infant SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Gosbecks Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Paxman AcademySecondary0.3 miProgress 8 -0.17 · average (2023/24)
Philip Morant School and CollegeSecondary0.5 miProgress 8 -0.13 · average (2023/24)
St Benedict's Catholic CollegeSecondary0.8 miProgress 8 +0.23 · 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.

6.4
crimes a month
70
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 66% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01021692, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Shrub End Road

How this home sits against its street.

142
graded homes
61.9
average score
D
most common grade
-8.9
this home vs street
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