3 Brookside Cottage, Barnshaw, Holmes Chapel, Crewe CW4 8DE

Semi-Detached house · Built before 1900 · 81 m² · Owner-occupied · Boiler and radiators, LPG

Upgrade Plan

FC for £19,530 · £6,510 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Draughtproofing£80 – £120£1300.8 yrs+5.8 pts
High-performance doors£1,000 – £0£1234.1 yrs+5.5 pts
Low energy lighting£30£74.5 yrs+0.3 pts
Flue gas heat recovery£900£1496.0 yrs+6.7 pts · reaches E
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£1546.5 yrs+6.9 pts
Heating controls£350 – £450£567.1 yrs+2.5 pts
Band A condensing boiler£2,200 – £3,000£9427.5 yrs+4.3 pts · reaches D
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£11941.9 yrs+5.4 pts
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£16650+ yrs+7.5 pts · reaches C
Solar photovoltaic panels(optional, beyond C)£9,000 – £14,000£14250+ yrs+6.4 pts
Double glazing(optional, beyond C)£3,300 – £6,500£5650+ yrs+2.5 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

£1,892
per year at grade F
£696
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £998 a year — a 5.1% annual return on £19,530.

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

19 July 2013£308,000

Estimated today: £558,721 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Barnshaw: 3 sales since 1995

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Goostrey Community Primary SchoolPrimary1.1 mi
Peover Superior Endowed Primary SchoolPrimary1.4 mi
Chelford CofE Primary SchoolPrimary2.8 mi
Holmes Chapel Comprehensive SchoolSecondary3.5 miProgress 8 -0.04 · average (2023/24)
Knutsford AcademySecondary4.7 miProgress 8 -0.03 · average (2023/24)
Middlewich High SchoolSecondary6.1 miProgress 8 -0.14 · 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.

4.8
crimes a month
53
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 64% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01018412, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Barnshaw

How this home sits against its street.

4
graded homes
51
average score
F
most common grade
-25.0
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.