Dines Farm Cottage, Flag Hill, Great Bentley CO7 8RF

Detached house · Built 1930-1949 · 95 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

EC for £15,400 · £7,700 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Heating controls£350 – £450£468.7 yrs+1.9 pts
Room-in-roof insulation£1,500 – £2,700£17412.0 yrs+7.1 pts · reaches D
Floor insulation£800 – £6,000£12626.9 yrs+5.2 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£11738.5 yrs+4.8 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£9850+ yrs+4.0 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

£2,150
per year at grade E
£1,588
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £562 a year — a 3.6% annual return on £15,400.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2021, states £1,333 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

16 November 2021£305,000
4 February 2021£195,000

Estimated today: £318,217 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Flag Hill: 26 sales since 1995 · £241,885 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
St Osyth Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary1.7 mi
Great Bentley Primary SchoolPrimary2.0 mi
Brightlingsea Primary School and NurseryPrimary2.1 mi
Colne Community SchoolSecondary2.0 miProgress 8 -0.08 · average (2023/24)
Lift ClactonSecondary3.6 miProgress 8 -0.83 · well below average (2023/24)
Clacton County High SchoolSecondary4.4 miProgress 8 -0.35 · 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.

15
crimes a month
135
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 40% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01021993, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Flag Hill

How this home sits against its street.

14
graded homes
57.4
average score
D
most common grade
-10.4
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.