3 Mill Hill, Cotton, Stowmarket IP14 4RT

Detached bungalow · Built 1967-1975 · 111 m² · Owner-occupied · Boiler and radiators, oil

Upgrade Plan

DB for £23,300 · £11,650 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£1138.8 yrs+5.5 pts
Heating controls£350 – £450£419.7 yrs+2.0 pts
Low energy lighting£50£510.1 yrs+0.2 pts
Wind turbine£1,500 – £4,000£9429.3 yrs+4.6 pts · reaches C
Band A condensing boiler£2,200 – £3,000£7037.3 yrs+3.4 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£8850+ yrs+4.3 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£9,000 – £14,000£10550+ yrs+5.1 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

£1,517
per year at grade D
£1,001
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £516 a year — a 2.2% annual return on £23,300.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2014, states £1,313 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

15 July 2014£250,000
8 December 1998£99,000

Estimated today: £377,684 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Mill Hill: 8 sales since 1995 · £414,167 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Bacton Primary SchoolPrimary1.0 mi
Mendlesham Primary SchoolPrimary2.3 mi
Gislingham Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary2.7 mi
Stowupland High SchoolSecondary4.5 miAttainment 8 41.1 · no Progress 8 published
Stowmarket High SchoolSecondary5.5 miProgress 8 -0.03 · average (2023/24)
Hartismere SchoolSecondary6.2 miProgress 8 +0.19 · 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.

5.2
crimes a month
47
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 47% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01030059, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Mill Hill

How this home sits against its street.

4
graded homes
61.3
average score
B
most common grade
-1.3
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.