Spring Cottage, Lower Road, Peldon, Colchester CO5 7PR

Detached house · Built before 1900 · 215 m² · Boiler and radiators, oil

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MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Low energy lighting(optional, beyond D)£83£239.9 yrs+0.0 pts
Solar water heating(optional, beyond D)£4,000 – £6,000£3750+ yrs+0.4 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels(optional, beyond D)£11,000 – £20,000£4450+ yrs+0.5 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

£2,614
per year at grade D
£2,531
per year at grade D

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2011, states £1,880 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

25 June 2021£800,000
29 October 2015£680,000

Estimated today: £905,589 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Lower Road: 47 sales since 1995 · £612,811 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Langenhoe Community Primary SchoolPrimary1.9 mi
Mersea Island SchoolPrimary2.6 mi
Layer-de-la-Haye Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolPrimary2.7 mi
The Thomas Lord Audley SchoolSecondary4.0 miProgress 8 -0.13 · average (2023/24)
Paxman AcademySecondary4.3 miProgress 8 -0.17 · average (2023/24)
Philip Morant School and CollegeSecondary5.0 miProgress 8 -0.13 · 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.

5.9
crimes a month
65
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 42% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01021694, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Lower Road

How this home sits against its street.

24
graded homes
60.8
average score
D
most common grade
-1.8
this home vs street
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