6 Kettle Street, Colchester CO4 5US

End-Terrace house · Built 2003-2006 · 68 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

CB for £4,950 · £4,950 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Party wall insulation£300 – £600£2319.5 yrs+3.6 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£3950+ yrs+6.2 pts · reaches B
Solar water heating(optional, beyond B)£4,000 – £6,000£3350+ yrs+5.2 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

£837
per year at grade C
£742
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £62 a year — a 1.3% annual return on £4,950.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2022, states £498 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

6 May 2021£242,000
29 May 2015£187,500
29 June 2012£165,000

Estimated today: £277,926 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Kettle Street: 54 sales since 1995 · £258,763 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Queen Boudica Primary SchoolPrimaryunder 0.1 mi
Myland Community Primary SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
North Primary School and NurseryPrimary0.7 mi
St Helena SchoolSecondary0.9 miProgress 8 -0.31 · below average (2023/24)
The Trinity SchoolSecondary1.0 miNot in the KS4 performance tables
The Gilberd SchoolSecondary1.0 miProgress 8 +0.44 · 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.

13.9
crimes a month
153
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 52% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01035175, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Kettle Street

How this home sits against its street.

30
graded homes
80.5
average score
B
most common grade
-6.5
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.