44 Windmill Drive, Audlem, Crewe CW3 0BE

Detached house · Built 1983-1990 · 119 m² · Owner-Occupied · Electric storage heaters

Upgrade Plan

CB for £14,500 · £14,500 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£12436.2 yrs+4.8 pts
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£13437.2 yrs+5.2 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£10448.0 yrs+4.0 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

£2,136
per year at grade C
£1,773
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £363 a year — a 2.5% annual return on £14,500.

Energy costs as modelled on the certificate, not a bill.

Sold prices

28 November 2024£445,000
17 June 2011£242,000

Estimated today: £469,937 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Windmill Drive: 45 sales since 1995 · £340,111 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Audlem St James' CofE Primary SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Adderley CofE Primary SchoolPrimary1.9 mi
Sound and District Primary SchoolPrimary3.7 mi
Brine Leas SchoolSecondary4.9 miProgress 8 -0.07 · average (2023/24)
The Grove SchoolSecondary5.7 miProgress 8 -0.48 · below average (2023/24)
Malbank School and Sixth Form CollegeSecondary5.8 miNot in the KS4 performance tables

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.

4
crimes a month
36
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 58% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01018449, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Windmill Drive

How this home sits against its street.

28
graded homes
60.2
average score
D
most common grade
+8.8
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.