7 Muscade Close, Tiptree, Colchester CO5 0DL

End-Terrace house · Built 1967-1975 · 74 m² · Owner-occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DB for £20,568 · £10,284 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Hot water cylinder insulation£15 – £30£860.3 yrs+4.7 pts
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£1019.9 yrs+5.5 pts · reaches C
Low energy lighting£45£410.2 yrs+0.2 pts
Heating controls£350 – £450£3710.9 yrs+2.0 pts
Band A condensing boiler£2,200 – £3,000£6242.0 yrs+3.4 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£7850+ yrs+4.2 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£9,000 – £14,000£9350+ yrs+5.1 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

£1,288
per year at grade D
£827
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £461 a year — a 2.2% annual return on £20,568.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2014, states £896 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

2 December 2014£185,000
22 October 2004£153,000
10 August 2001£91,500
4 June 1998£53,500

Estimated today: £278,219 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Muscade Close: 33 sales since 1995 · £309,344 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Milldene Primary SchoolPrimaryunder 0.1 mi
St Luke's Church of England Controlled Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Baynards Primary SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Thurstable SchoolSecondary0.2 miProgress 8 -0.19 · average (2023/24)
Lift New RickstonesSecondary4.9 miProgress 8 -0.43 · below average (2023/24)
Honywood SchoolSecondary5.0 miProgress 8 -0.33 · 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.

5.6
crimes a month
62
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 47% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01021727, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Muscade Close

How this home sits against its street.

10
graded homes
63.9
average score
D
most common grade
-3.9
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.