Farthing Cottage, Witcombe, Gloucester GL3 4TP

Detached house · Built 1900-1929 · 233 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and underfloor heating, oil, Boiler and radiators, oil

Upgrade Plan

ED for £10,200 · £10,200 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£1119.0 yrs+2.8 pts
Room-in-roof insulation£1,500 – £2,700£20610.2 yrs+5.2 pts
Band A condensing boiler£2,200 – £3,000£9228.4 yrs+2.3 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£13832.6 yrs+3.5 pts · reaches D
Solar water heating(optional, beyond D)£4,000 – £6,000£11643.3 yrs+2.9 pts
Solid wall insulation(optional, beyond D)£4,000 – £14,000£16150+ yrs+4.0 pts
Double glazing(optional, beyond D)£3,300 – £6,500£5450+ yrs+1.4 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

£3,037
per year at grade E
£2,160
per year at grade D

The full plan saves £546 a year — a 5.4% annual return on £10,200.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2023, states £3,350 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

No sale recorded for this address since 1995.

Farm Lane: 1 sales since 1995

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Castle Hill Primary SchoolPrimary0.8 mi
Lift BrockworthPrimary1.1 mi
Birdlip Primary SchoolPrimary1.4 mi
Henley Bank High SchoolSecondary1.0 miProgress 8 +0.64 · well above average (2023/24)
Chosen Hill SchoolSecondary3.2 miProgress 8 -0.13 · average (2023/24)
The High School LeckhamptonSecondary3.4 miNot in the KS4 performance tables

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.

6.5
crimes a month
26
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 31% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01034806, to 2026-01. 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.