5 Limes Avenue, Chigwell IG7 5LS

End-Terrace house · Built 1967-1975 · 98 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DB for £8,400 · £4,200 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Loft insulation£100 – £350£504.5 yrs+2.2 pts
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£1059.5 yrs+4.7 pts · reaches C
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£7912.7 yrs+3.5 pts
Flat roof insulation£850 – £1,500£8014.7 yrs+3.6 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£8250+ yrs+3.6 pts · reaches B
Solar photovoltaic panels(optional, beyond B)£5,000 – £8,000£9850+ yrs+4.3 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

£1,325
per year at grade D
£831
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £396 a year — a 4.7% annual return on £8,400.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2016, states £917 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

23 September 2021£430,000
8 November 2017£360,001
22 November 2006£213,500
5 March 2002£131,000

Estimated today: £475,188 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Limes Avenue: 334 sales since 1995 · £320,493 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Limes Farm Junior SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Limes Farm Infant School and NurseryPrimary0.2 mi
Fairlop Primary SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
King Solomon High SchoolSecondary0.8 miProgress 8 +0.36 · above average (2023/24)
Ilford County High SchoolSecondary1.0 miProgress 8 +0.87 · well above average (2023/24)
West Hatch High SchoolSecondary1.1 miProgress 8 +0.24 · 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.

Limes Avenue

How this home sits against its street.

271
graded homes
68.5
average score
C
most common grade
-4.5
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.