3 Pallington Heath, Dorchester DT2 8QX

Semi-Detached house · Built 1950-1966 · 105 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, oil

Upgrade Plan

EC for £14,600 · £7,300 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£2024.9 yrs+8.1 pts
Room-in-roof insulation£1,500 – £2,700£2797.5 yrs+11.2 pts · reaches D
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£15731.8 yrs+6.3 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£5,000 – £8,000£18734.7 yrs+7.5 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

£2,003
per year at grade E
£1,177
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £826 a year — a 5.7% annual return on £14,600.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2016, states £1,307 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

19 March 2024£390,000
8 January 2007£267,500
11 May 1998£76,500

Estimated today: £396,113 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Frome Valley CofE First SchoolPrimary2.3 mi
Bovington AcademyPrimary2.6 mi
Puddletown Church of England First SchoolPrimary3.3 mi
The Purbeck SchoolSecondary7.9 miProgress 8 +0.60 · well above average (2023/24)
The Blandford SchoolSecondary11.0 miProgress 8 -0.33 · 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.

7.1
crimes a month
71
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 32% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01020490, 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.