Fern Cottage, Hemingstone Road, Ashbocking, Ipswich IP6 9LF

Detached house · Built before 1900 · 145 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, LPG

Upgrade Plan

EC for £23,545 · £11,773 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Low energy lighting£45£67.6 yrs+0.3 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£12635.7 yrs+6.0 pts
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£13636.7 yrs+6.5 pts · reaches D
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£10647.3 yrs+5.1 pts
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£14750+ yrs+7.1 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

£1,594
per year at grade E
£1,073
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £521 a year — a 2.2% annual return on £23,545.

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

26 November 2019£445,000
4 June 2001£145,000

Estimated today: £520,576 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Hemingstone Road: 2 sales since 1995 · £445,000 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Witnesham Primary SchoolPrimary1.4 mi
Henley Primary SchoolPrimary1.6 mi
Otley Primary SchoolPrimary2.4 mi
Claydon High SchoolSecondary3.3 miProgress 8 -0.18 · average (2023/24)
Ormiston Endeavour AcademySecondary4.1 miProgress 8 -0.09 · average (2023/24)
Northgate High SchoolSecondary4.8 miProgress 8 +0.35 · 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.

9.3
crimes a month
65
in the last 12 months
Burglary
most common · 25% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01030057, 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.