6 Old Forge Cottages, Didbrook, Cheltenham GL54 5PF

Semi-Detached house · Built 1950-1966 · 124 m² · Owner-occupied · Boiler and radiators, oil

Upgrade Plan

DB for £21,480 · £10,740 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£6914.5 yrs+4.2 pts · reaches C
Low energy lighting£55£318.2 yrs+0.2 pts
Flat roof insulation£850 – £1,500£5222.4 yrs+3.2 pts
Wind turbine£1,500 – £4,000£5748.1 yrs+3.4 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£5450+ yrs+3.2 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£9,000 – £14,000£6450+ yrs+3.8 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

£1,344
per year at grade D
£1,045
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £299 a year — a 1.4% annual return on £21,480.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2013, states £1,120 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

6 January 2014£240,000
10 July 2009£225,000
10 December 1998£97,000

Estimated today: £426,446 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Old Forge Cottages: 7 sales since 1995 · £310,000 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Isbourne Valley SchoolPrimaryunder 0.1 mi
Winchcombe Abbey Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary2.6 mi
Gretton Primary SchoolPrimary2.9 mi
Winchcombe SchoolSecondary2.0 miProgress 8 -0.01 · average (2023/24)
Cleeve SchoolSecondary6.2 miProgress 8 +0.22 · above average (2023/24)
The De Montfort SchoolSecondary7.2 miProgress 8 +0.15 · 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.

7.2
crimes a month
36
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 28% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01022466, to 2026-05. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Old Forge Cottages

How this home sits against its street.

30
graded homes
36.2
average score
F
most common grade
+29.8
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.