6 Barfields Row, School Road, Messing, Colchester CO5 9TL

Mid-Terrace house · Built 1976-1982 · Boiler and radiators, oil

Upgrade Plan

FC for £18,919 · £6,306 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Hot water cylinder insulation£23 – £300typical£1221.3 yrs+4.9 pts · reaches E
Loft insulation£225typical£683.3 yrs+2.7 pts
Low energy lighting£20 – £45typical£65.2 yrs+0.2 pts
Heating controls£400typical£527.7 yrs+2.1 pts
Cavity wall insulation£1,000typical£1079.4 yrs+4.2 pts
Wind turbine£2,750typical£11823.3 yrs+4.7 pts · reaches D
Band A condensing boiler£2,600typical£8829.7 yrs+3.5 pts
Solar water heating£5,000typical£11145.2 yrs+4.4 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£4,500 – £9,000typical£13250+ yrs+5.3 pts · reaches C

Grants verified 20 August 2026. Costs are the register’s indicative ranges, except where marked typical, which this certificate did not price and which are taken instead from comparable homes of the same type. 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

£1,579
per year at grade F
£776
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £803 a year — a 4.2% annual return on £18,919.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2009, states £989 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

25 November 2011£188,500
30 June 2000£103,000
12 July 1996£60,000

Estimated today: £337,555 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Barfields Row: 10 sales since 1995

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Messing Primary SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Baynards Primary SchoolPrimary1.1 mi
Milldene Primary SchoolPrimary1.3 mi
Thurstable SchoolSecondary1.1 miProgress 8 -0.19 · average (2023/24)
Honywood SchoolSecondary3.9 miProgress 8 -0.33 · below average (2023/24)
Lift New RickstonesSecondary5.0 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.

Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.