1 Mayday Cottages, May Day, Brandon IP27 0SS

Semi-Detached house · Built 1900-1929 · 101 m² · Owner-Occupied · No system present: electric heaters assumed

Upgrade Plan

GA for £44,243 · £7,374 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Hot water cylinder insulation£15 – £30£2720.1 yrs+8.3 pts
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£3183.1 yrs+9.7 pts · reaches F
Low energy lighting£45£143.2 yrs+0.4 pts
High-retention storage heaters£2,000 – £3,000£6274.0 yrs+19.1 pts · reaches E
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£2384.2 yrs+7.2 pts
Flat roof insulation£850 – £1,500£2424.9 yrs+7.4 pts · reaches D
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£29515.3 yrs+9.0 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£24720.2 yrs+7.5 pts · reaches C
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£34426.1 yrs+10.5 pts · reaches B
Wind turbine£15,000 – £25,000£26450+ yrs+8.0 pts · reaches A

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

£4,352
per year at grade G
£1,490
per year at grade A

The full plan saves £2,862 a year — a 6.5% annual return on £44,243.

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

16 June 2023£265,000

Estimated today: £269,668 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

May Day: 4 sales since 1995

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Glade AcademyPrimary1.9 mi
Forest AcademyPrimary2.0 mi
Elveden Church of England Primary AcademyPrimary2.7 mi
Breckland SchoolSecondary2.1 miProgress 8 -0.34 · below average (2023/24)
The Thetford AcademySecondary4.9 miProgress 8 +0.04 · average (2023/24)
Mildenhall College AcademySecondary7.7 miProgress 8 -0.29 · 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.

8.7
crimes a month
78
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 40% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01029930, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.