Fiddle De Dee Cottage, The Crescent, West Bergholt, West Bergholt CO6 3DA

Detached house · Built 1900-1929 · 183 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

C → B for £21,000 · £21,000 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
High-performance doors—£4,500 – £500£6638.1 yrs+2.5 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels—£3,500 – £5,500£7650+ yrs+2.8 pts
Solar water heating—£4,000 – £6,000£6450+ yrs+2.4 pts
Solid wall insulation—£4,000 – £14,000£8950+ yrs+3.3 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

£1,820
per year at grade C
£1,526
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £294 a year — a 1.4% annual return on £21,000.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2021, states £1,133 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

30 June 2021£815,000

Estimated today: £922,568 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

The Crescent: 17 sales since 1995 · £576,875 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Heathlands Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School, West BergholtPrimary0.3 mi—
The Bishop William Ward Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary1.3 mi—
Braiswick Primary SchoolPrimary1.5 mi—
The Trinity SchoolSecondary1.6 miNot in the KS4 performance tables
St Helena SchoolSecondary2.5 miProgress 8 -0.31 · below average (2023/24)
The Stanway SchoolSecondary2.5 miProgress 8 +0.07 · 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.

5.1
crimes a month
46
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 46% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01021728, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

The Crescent

How this home sits against its street.

5
graded homes
68
average score
C
most common grade
+4.0
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.