3 Hows Cottages, Bideford EX39 4ED

End-Terrace house · Built 1900-1929 · 97 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

EB for £23,775 · £7,925 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£1397.2 yrs+5.1 pts · reaches D
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£1049.6 yrs+3.8 pts
Room-in-roof insulation£1,500 – £2,700£19211.0 yrs+7.0 pts
Flat roof insulation£850 – £1,500£10511.1 yrs+3.9 pts · reaches C
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£12935.0 yrs+4.7 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£10846.4 yrs+4.0 pts
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£15050+ yrs+5.5 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

£1,894
per year at grade E
£968
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £926 a year — a 3.9% annual return on £23,775.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2020, states £1,200 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

5 October 2020£190,000
7 August 2015£142,000
26 June 2007£150,000
31 May 2002£74,000
10 June 1999£48,500

Estimated today: £212,500 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Hows Cottages: 10 sales since 1995 · £177,500 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
West Croft SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
East-the-Water Community Primary SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
St Mary's CofE Primary SchoolPrimary0.8 mi
Bideford CollegeSecondary0.8 miProgress 8 -0.24 · below average (2023/24)
Great Torrington SchoolSecondary5.0 miProgress 8 -0.10 · average (2023/24)
Atlantic AcademySecondary6.1 miProgress 8 -0.30 · 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.

13.2
crimes a month
145
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 59% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01020277, 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.