Walnuts, Work House Hill, Boxted, Colchester CO4 5TT

Detached house · Built 1991-1995 · 154 m² · Owner-occupied · Boiler and radiators, oil

Upgrade Plan

DB for £22,910 · £11,455 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£1218.3 yrs+4.5 pts
Low energy lighting£60£511.4 yrs+0.2 pts
Wind turbine£1,500 – £4,000£10027.5 yrs+3.8 pts · reaches C
Band A condensing boiler£2,200 – £3,000£7435.1 yrs+2.8 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£9450+ yrs+3.5 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£9,000 – £14,000£11250+ yrs+4.2 pts · reaches B

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

£1,908
per year at grade D
£1,403
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £505 a year — a 2.2% annual return on £22,910.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2012, states £1,412 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

14 April 2015£430,000
30 November 2006£390,000
8 February 1999£127,000

Estimated today: £623,075 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Work House Hill: 34 sales since 1995 · £685,800 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Boxted St Peter's Church of England SchoolPrimary0.8 mi
Langham Primary AcademyPrimary1.9 mi
The Bishop William Ward Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary1.9 mi
The Trinity SchoolSecondary2.3 miNot in the KS4 performance tables
The Gilberd SchoolSecondary2.4 miProgress 8 +0.44 · above average (2023/24)
St Helena SchoolSecondary3.8 miProgress 8 -0.31 · 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.

6.3
crimes a month
69
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 55% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01021659, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Work House Hill

How this home sits against its street.

12
graded homes
54.5
average score
C
most common grade
+8.5
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.