Old Postmans Cottage, Mill Road, Great Barton IP31 2RY

Semi-Detached house · Built before 1900 · 76 m² · Owner-Occupied · Electric storage heaters

Upgrade Plan

FB for £27,340 · £6,835 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Low energy lighting£15£131.1 yrs+0.3 pts
Loft insulation£100 – £350£1431.6 yrs+3.6 pts
High-retention storage heaters£1,200 – £1,800£5912.5 yrs+14.7 pts · reaches E
Room-in-roof insulation£1,500 – £2,700£4145.1 yrs+10.3 pts · reaches D
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£27816.2 yrs+6.9 pts
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£30016.7 yrs+7.5 pts · reaches C
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£23321.5 yrs+5.8 pts
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£32427.8 yrs+8.1 pts · reaches B
Double glazing(optional, beyond B)£3,300 – £6,500£10945.2 yrs+2.7 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

£3,440
per year at grade F
£1,037
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £2,294 a year — a 8.4% annual return on £27,340.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2021, states £2,249 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

15 September 2023£210,000

Estimated today: £212,598 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Mill Road: 52 sales since 1995 · £354,699 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Great Barton Church of England Primary AcademyPrimary0.3 mi
Abbots Green Primary AcademyPrimary2.0 mi
Sebert Wood Community Primary SchoolPrimary2.6 mi
Sybil Andrews AcademySecondary2.2 miProgress 8 +0.15 · average (2023/24)
Thurston Community CollegeSecondary2.3 miProgress 8 -0.16 · average (2023/24)
St Benedict's Catholic SchoolSecondary2.9 miProgress 8 +0.17 · 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
crimes a month
49
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 27% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01030104, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Mill Road

How this home sits against its street.

23
graded homes
60.2
average score
D
most common grade
-33.2
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.