Saddlers Cottage, The Heath, Dedham, Colchester CO7 6BT

Detached house · Built before 1900 · 158 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

FC for £28,990 · £9,663 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Draughtproofing£80 – £120£3010.3 yrs+5.4 pts
Hot water cylinder insulation£200 – £400£3061.0 yrs+5.5 pts · reaches E
Heating controls£350 – £450£1303.1 yrs+2.3 pts
Low energy lighting£90£165.8 yrs+0.3 pts
Band A condensing boiler£2,200 – £3,000£22011.8 yrs+3.9 pts
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£35814.0 yrs+6.4 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£27718.0 yrs+5.0 pts · reaches D
Solar photovoltaic panels£5,000 – £8,000£33119.6 yrs+5.9 pts
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£38723.3 yrs+6.9 pts · reaches C
Double glazing(optional, beyond C)£3,300 – £6,500£12937.9 yrs+2.3 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

£4,212
per year at grade F
£1,757
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £2,326 a year — a 8.0% annual return on £28,990.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2017, states £2,793 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

9 December 2020£790,000
5 January 2018£675,000

Estimated today: £865,455 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

The Heath: 51 sales since 1995 · £628,293 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Dedham Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
Ardleigh St Mary's Church of England Primary AcademyPrimary1.5 mi
Stratford St Mary Primary SchoolPrimary2.1 mi
Manningtree High SchoolSecondary2.5 miProgress 8 +0.15 · average (2023/24)
East Bergholt High SchoolSecondary2.6 miProgress 8 +0.09 · average (2023/24)
The Gilberd SchoolSecondary3.9 miProgress 8 +0.44 · above 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.

7.5
crimes a month
60
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 35% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01021656, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

The Heath

How this home sits against its street.

20
graded homes
65.2
average score
D
most common grade
-34.2
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.