Bear Cottage, Malting Road, Peldon, Colchester CO5 7PU

Semi-Detached house · Built 2003-2006 · 111 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, LPG

Upgrade Plan

DC for £11,500 · £11,500 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£3450+ yrs+5.5 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£5,000 – £8,000£4050+ yrs+6.5 pts · reaches C

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

£963
per year at grade D
£889
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £74 a year — a 0.6% annual return on £11,500.

Energy costs as modelled on the certificate, not a bill. This fuel has too few recent certificates to restate at today's prices.

Sold prices

29 August 2019£400,000
29 July 2011£250,000
22 February 2008£283,000
21 December 2004£249,995

Estimated today: £466,747 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Malting Road: 17 sales since 1995 · £329,000 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Langenhoe Community Primary SchoolPrimary1.5 mi
Layer-de-la-Haye Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolPrimary2.4 mi
Mersea Island SchoolPrimary2.9 mi
The Thomas Lord Audley SchoolSecondary3.6 miProgress 8 -0.13 · average (2023/24)
Paxman AcademySecondary3.9 miProgress 8 -0.17 · average (2023/24)
Philip Morant School and CollegeSecondary4.6 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.

Malting Road

How this home sits against its street.

8
graded homes
57.9
average score
D
most common grade
+0.1
this home vs street
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