2 Broadflash Cottages, Broadflash Lane, Merton IP25 6QL

Detached house · Built 1900-1929 · 264 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and underfloor heating, oil, Boiler and radiators, oil

Upgrade Plan

DC for £9,500 · £9,500 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£2850+ yrs+5.1 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£2350+ yrs+4.3 pts · reaches C
Wind turbine(optional, beyond C)£15,000 – £25,000£2550+ yrs+4.6 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

£2,654
per year at grade D
£2,578
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £51 a year — a 0.5% annual return on £9,500.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2023, states £2,959 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

21 July 2025£720,000
18 January 2002£130,000
30 June 1997£42,500

Estimated today: £737,358 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Broadflash Cottages: 5 sales since 1995 · £720,000 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Thompson Primary SchoolPrimary1.0 mi
Watton Westfield Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary1.5 mi
Watton Junior SchoolPrimary1.7 mi
Wayland AcademySecondary1.4 miProgress 8 +0.61 · well above average (2023/24)
The Thetford AcademySecondary9.0 miProgress 8 +0.04 · average (2023/24)
Dereham Neatherd High SchoolSecondary10.7 miProgress 8 -0.42 · below 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.

7.2
crimes a month
72
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 46% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01026491, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Broadflash Cottages

How this home sits against its street.

3
graded homes
35.7
average score
D
most common grade
+25.3
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.