Red House, School Road, Messing, Colchester CO5 9TH

Detached house · Built before 1900 · 507 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, wood pellets

Upgrade Plan

FD for £28,875 · £14,438 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Draughtproofing£80 – £120£3880.3 yrs+4.2 pts
Room-in-roof insulation£1,500 – £2,700£6363.3 yrs+6.9 pts
Flat roof insulation£850 – £1,500£3503.4 yrs+3.8 pts
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£46110.9 yrs+5.0 pts · reaches E
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£35714.0 yrs+3.9 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£5,000 – £8,000£42615.2 yrs+4.7 pts
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£49818.1 yrs+5.4 pts · reaches D
Double glazing(optional, beyond D)£3,300 – £6,500£16729.4 yrs+1.8 pts
Wind turbine(optional, beyond D)£15,000 – £25,000£38250+ yrs+4.2 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

£7,659
per year at grade F
£3,995
per year at grade D

The full plan saves £3,116 a year — a 10.8% annual return on £28,875.

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

9 October 2015£903,000

Estimated today: £1,240,485 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

School Road: 28 sales since 1995 · £422,818 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Messing Primary SchoolPrimaryunder 0.1 mi
Baynards Primary SchoolPrimary1.0 mi
Milldene Primary SchoolPrimary1.1 mi
Thurstable SchoolSecondary1.0 miProgress 8 -0.19 · average (2023/24)
Honywood SchoolSecondary4.0 miProgress 8 -0.33 · below average (2023/24)
Lift New RickstonesSecondary4.9 miProgress 8 -0.43 · 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.

7.7
crimes a month
77
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 51% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01021643, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

School Road

How this home sits against its street.

18
graded homes
58.7
average score
D
most common grade
-34.7
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.