Spring Hill Cottage, Ipswich Road, Bildeston, Ipswich IP7 7BJ

Detached house · Built before 1900 · 134 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, oil

Upgrade Plan

EA for £41,645 · £10,411 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£1626.2 yrs+8.0 pts
Low energy lighting£45£76.3 yrs+0.3 pts
Room-in-roof insulation£1,500 – £2,700£2249.4 yrs+11.0 pts · reaches D
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£15030.0 yrs+7.4 pts · reaches C
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£12639.7 yrs+6.2 pts
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£17550+ yrs+8.6 pts · reaches B
Wind turbine£15,000 – £25,000£13450+ yrs+6.6 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

£2,195
per year at grade E
£1,216
per year at grade A

The full plan saves £979 a year — a 2.4% annual return on £41,645.

Energy costs as modelled on the certificate, not a bill.

Sold prices

3 September 2024£865,000
13 November 2000£170,000
8 February 1996£62,500

Estimated today: £873,827 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Ipswich Road: 11 sales since 1995 · £625,000 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Bildeston Primary SchoolPrimary1.0 mi
Whatfield Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolPrimary2.4 mi
Ringshall SchoolPrimary2.8 mi
Hadleigh High SchoolSecondary4.9 miProgress 8 -0.16 · average (2023/24)
Stowmarket High SchoolSecondary5.9 miProgress 8 -0.03 · average (2023/24)
Stowupland High SchoolSecondary7.3 miAttainment 8 41.1 · no Progress 8 published

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.

5
crimes a month
55
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 53% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01029876, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Ipswich Road

How this home sits against its street.

5
graded homes
57.8
average score
E
most common grade
-11.8
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.