Loscombe Farm, Coombe Road, Winterbourne Steepleton, Dorchester DT2 9HD

Detached bungalow · Built 1976-1982 · 146 m² · Owner-Occupied · Room heaters, smokeless fuel

Upgrade Plan

FB for £42,725 · £10,681 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Loft insulation£100 – £350£812.8 yrs+3.4 pts
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£1277.9 yrs+5.4 pts
Biomass boiler£5,000 Boiler Upgrade Scheme£2,000 – £8,000£5668.8 yrs+23.9 pts · reaches D
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£17029.4 yrs+7.2 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£13237.9 yrs+5.6 pts · reaches C
Solar photovoltaic panels£5,000 – £8,000£15841.3 yrs+6.6 pts
Wind turbine£15,000 – £25,000£14150+ yrs+6.0 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

£2,538
per year at grade F
£1,163
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £1,375 a year — a 3.2% annual return on £42,725.

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.

Coombe Road: 3 sales since 1995

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Winterbourne Valley Church of England Aided First SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
Portesham Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary2.5 mi
Damers First SchoolPrimary3.8 mi
The Thomas Hardye SchoolSecondary4.1 miProgress 8 +0.30 · above average (2023/24)
Wey Valley AcademySecondary5.5 miProgress 8 -0.36 · below average (2023/24)
Dorset Studio SchoolSecondary6.2 miProgress 8 -0.50 · 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.

7.3
crimes a month
58
in the last 12 months
Anti-social behaviour
most common · 33% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01020549, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Coombe Road

How this home sits against its street.

4
graded homes
59.8
average score
B
most common grade
-33.8
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.