2 Murtwell Drive, Chigwell IG7 5ED

Semi-Detached house · Built 1930-1949 · 99 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

EC for £15,605 · £7,803 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£1437.0 yrs+5.4 pts · reaches D
Heating controls£350 – £450£527.7 yrs+2.0 pts
Low energy lighting£105£616.8 yrs+0.2 pts
Band A condensing boiler£2,200 – £3,000£8829.6 yrs+3.3 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£11145.1 yrs+4.2 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£5,000 – £8,000£13249.1 yrs+5.0 pts · reaches C
Solid wall insulation(optional, beyond C)£4,000 – £14,000£15550+ yrs+5.9 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

£1,810
per year at grade E
£1,123
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £532 a year — a 3.4% annual return on £15,605.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2019, states £1,141 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

23 April 2021£750,000
22 August 1997£141,000
12 April 1995£117,250

Estimated today: £852,891 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Murtwell Drive: 38 sales since 1995 · £605,560 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Limes Farm Junior SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Limes Farm Infant School and NurseryPrimary0.3 mi
Fairlop Primary SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
West Hatch High SchoolSecondary0.9 miProgress 8 +0.24 · above average (2023/24)
King Solomon High SchoolSecondary1.0 miProgress 8 +0.36 · above average (2023/24)
Ilford County High SchoolSecondary1.1 miProgress 8 +0.87 · well 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.

6.3
crimes a month
50
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 42% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01021766, to 2026-05. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Murtwell Drive

How this home sits against its street.

24
graded homes
56.8
average score
D
most common grade
-3.8
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.