Storm Cottage, Bolts Close, Wells-Next-The-Sea NR23 1JP

Detached house · Built before 1900 · 115 m² · Owner-Occupied · No system present: electric heaters assumed

Upgrade Plan

FB for £31,125 · £7,781 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Loft insulation£100 – £350£4220.5 yrs+4.0 pts
High-retention storage heaters£2,000 – £3,000£1,7441.4 yrs+16.4 pts · reaches E
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£8205.5 yrs+7.7 pts
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£8855.6 yrs+8.3 pts · reaches D
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£6877.3 yrs+6.5 pts
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£9579.4 yrs+9.0 pts · reaches C
Double glazing£3,300 – £6,500£32015.3 yrs+3.0 pts · reaches B

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

£7,586
per year at grade F
£1,750
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £5,836 a year — a 18.8% annual return on £31,125.

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

20 August 2024£490,000

Estimated today: £486,457 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Bolts Close: 10 sales since 1995 · £482,000 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Wells-Next-the-Sea Primary and Nursery SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Walsingham CE VA Primary SchoolPrimary4.0 mi
Burnham Market Primary and Nursery SchoolPrimary5.0 mi
Alderman Peel High SchoolSecondary0.4 miProgress 8 -0.31 · below average (2023/24)
Fakenham AcademySecondary7.9 miProgress 8 -0.12 · 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.

9.8
crimes a month
78
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 54% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01026764, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Bolts Close

How this home sits against its street.

7
graded homes
49.4
average score
E
most common grade
-23.4
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.