The Cottage, The Street, Ashfield Cum Thorpe IP14 6LX

Detached house · Built before 1900 · 112 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler with radiators and underfloor heating, oil

Upgrade Plan

EB for £31,250 · £10,417 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Solar water heating£4,000 – £7,000£11846.6 yrs+6.4 pts · reaches D
Floor insulation£5,000 – £10,000£15249.3 yrs+8.2 pts
Solid wall insulation£7,500 – £11,000£16450+ yrs+8.9 pts · reaches C
Solar photovoltaic panels£8,000 – £10,000£14150+ yrs+7.6 pts · reaches B
Wind turbine(optional, beyond B)£5,000 – £20,000£12650+ yrs+6.8 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

£1,756
per year at grade E
£1,055
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £575 a year — a 1.8% annual return on £31,250.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2025, states £1,938 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

12 June 2026£595,000
17 June 2011£205,000

Estimated today: £595,000 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

The Street: 48 sales since 1995 · £425,291 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Earl Soham Community Primary SchoolPrimary1.5 mi
Helmingham Primary School and NurseryPrimary2.4 mi
Bedfield Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary2.4 mi
Debenham High SchoolSecondary2.7 miProgress 8 +0.76 · well above average (2023/24)
Thomas Mills High School & Sixth FormSecondary4.1 miProgress 8 +0.10 · average (2023/24)
Stradbroke High SchoolSecondary7.0 miProgress 8 +0.37 · 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
crimes a month
60
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 57% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01030090, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

The Street

How this home sits against its street.

25
graded homes
51.9
average score
E
most common grade
-1.9
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.