Blacksmiths Cottage, Saxham Street, Stowmarket IP14 5DF

Detached house · Built before 1900 · 100 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, LPG

Upgrade Plan

GC for £29,125 · £7,281 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Loft insulation£100 – £350£1281.8 yrs+4.7 pts · reaches F
High-performance doors£1,000 – £0£2152.3 yrs+7.8 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£24918.1 yrs+9.1 pts
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£26918.6 yrs+9.8 pts · reaches E
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£20924.0 yrs+7.6 pts · reaches D
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£29130.9 yrs+10.6 pts
Double glazing£3,300 – £6,500£9750+ yrs+3.5 pts · reaches C

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

£2,519
per year at grade G
£1,061
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £1,458 a year — a 5.0% annual return on £29,125.

Energy costs as modelled on the certificate, not a bill. This fuel has too few recent certificates to restate at today's prices.

Sold prices

7 November 2003£249,950
15 October 1999£120,000

Estimated today: £519,411 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Saxham Street: 82 sales since 1995 · £377,385 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Old Newton Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary1.6 mi
Freeman Community Primary SchoolPrimary1.6 mi
Cedars Park Community Primary SchoolPrimary2.5 mi
Stowupland High SchoolSecondary1.6 miAttainment 8 41.1 · no Progress 8 published
Stowmarket High SchoolSecondary3.6 miProgress 8 -0.03 · average (2023/24)
Debenham High SchoolSecondary5.0 miProgress 8 +0.76 · 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.

10.3
crimes a month
113
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 53% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01030081, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Saxham Street

How this home sits against its street.

37
graded homes
51.4
average score
E
most common grade
-34.4
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.