Mead Cottage, Melcombe Bingham, Dorchester DT2 7PD

End-Terrace house · Built before 1900 · 95 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, LPG

Upgrade Plan

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MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation(optional, beyond D)£4,000 – £6,000£6750+ yrs+2.9 pts
Solid wall insulation(optional, beyond D)£4,000 – £14,000£7350+ yrs+3.1 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

£955
per year at grade D
£815
per year at grade D

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

No sale recorded for this address since 1995.

Hartfoot Lane: 23 sales since 1995 · £392,750 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Cheselbourne Village SchoolPrimary1.5 mi
Hazelbury Bryan Primary SchoolPrimary3.6 mi
Milborne St Andrew First SchoolPrimary3.7 mi
Dorset Studio SchoolSecondary7.7 miProgress 8 -0.50 · below average (2023/24)
Sturminster Newton High SchoolSecondary7.9 miProgress 8 -0.39 · below average (2023/24)
The Thomas Hardye SchoolSecondary9.3 miProgress 8 +0.30 · 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.

7.9
crimes a month
71
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 34% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01020539, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Hartfoot Lane

How this home sits against its street.

17
graded homes
55.9
average score
D
most common grade
-0.9
this home vs street
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