1 Pear Tree Cottage, Stodmarsh, Canterbury CT3 4BA

Semi-Detached house · Built before 1900 · 111 m² · Owner-Occupied · Portable electric heaters assumed for most rooms

Upgrade Plan

FC for £39,500 · £13,167 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£2024.9 yrs+10.4 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£18724.1 yrs+9.6 pts · reaches E
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£15731.9 yrs+8.1 pts
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£21941.2 yrs+11.3 pts · reaches D
Wind turbine£15,000 – £25,000£16850+ yrs+8.6 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

£2,680
per year at grade F
£1,748
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £932 a year — a 2.4% annual return on £39,500.

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

17 December 1996£64,000

Estimated today: £381,217 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Wickhambreaux Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary1.1 mi
Water Meadows Primary SchoolPrimary1.4 mi
Littlebourne Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary1.7 mi
Orion SpiresSecondary1.6 miProgress 8 -1.12 · well below average (2023/24)
Barton Manor SchoolSecondary3.9 miNot in the KS4 performance tables
Barton Court Grammar SchoolSecondary4.2 miProgress 8 +0.38 · 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.

6.3
crimes a month
63
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 54% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01024085, 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.