46 Blanch Croft, Melbourne, Derby DE73 8GG

Detached house · Built 1950-1966 · 235 m² · Rented (Private) · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

EB for £17,600 · £5,867 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Heating controls£350 – £450£1602.5 yrs+2.4 pts
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£3293.0 yrs+4.9 pts · reaches D
Room-in-roof insulation£1,500 – £2,700£6083.5 yrs+9.1 pts
Band A condensing boiler£2,200 – £3,000£2709.6 yrs+4.0 pts · reaches C
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£44011.4 yrs+6.6 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£5,000 – £8,000£40716.0 yrs+6.1 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

£3,971
per year at grade E
£1,756
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £2,215 a year — a 12.6% annual return on £17,600.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2016, states £2,772 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

14 June 2019£630,000
7 November 2006£470,000
20 June 2002£275,000
7 March 1997£132,250

Estimated today: £840,798 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Blanchcroft: 67 sales since 1995

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Melbourne Junior SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Melbourne Infant SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
St Hardulph's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary2.0 mi
Chellaston AcademySecondary3.0 miProgress 8 -0.07 · average (2023/24)
Castle Donington CollegeSecondary4.0 miProgress 8 -0.27 · below average (2023/24)
Noel-Baker AcademySecondary4.1 miProgress 8 -0.84 · well 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.

8.2
crimes a month
90
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 41% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01019854, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Blanchcroft

How this home sits against its street.

24
graded homes
60.3
average score
D
most common grade
-11.3
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.