2 The Cross, Dorset, Bradford Abbas DT9 6RY

Semi-Detached house · Built before 1900 · 64 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, LPG

Upgrade Plan

EC for £24,000 · £12,000 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
High-performance doors£1,000 – £0£618.2 yrs+5.8 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£7050+ yrs+6.7 pts
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£7650+ yrs+7.2 pts · reaches D
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£5950+ yrs+5.6 pts
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£8250+ yrs+7.8 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

£991
per year at grade E
£642
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £349 a year — a 1.5% annual return on £24,000.

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

24 September 2021£282,000
18 August 2017£175,000
11 January 2013£121,000

Estimated today: £310,424 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

The Cross: 9 sales since 1995 · £252,900 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
St Mary's Church of England Primary School, Bradford AbbasPrimary0.2 mi
Thornford CofE Primary SchoolPrimary1.2 mi
Barwick and Stoford Community Primary SchoolPrimary1.8 mi
Buckler's Mead SchoolSecondary2.6 miProgress 8 -0.36 · below average (2023/24)
Westfield AcademySecondary3.0 miProgress 8 -0.54 · well below average (2023/24)
Preston School AcademySecondary3.3 miProgress 8 +0.23 · 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.

10.1
crimes a month
101
in the last 12 months
Shoplifting
most common · 51% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01020497, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

The Cross

How this home sits against its street.

4
graded homes
46.5
average score
E
most common grade
-5.5
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.