Folly Cottage, Andrew Common, Algarkirk, Boston PE20 2LL

Detached house · Built before 1900 · 83 m² · Owner-occupied · Boiler and radiators, LPG

Upgrade Plan

FB for £34,045 · £8,511 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Loft insulation£100 – £350£852.6 yrs+3.6 pts
Flue gas heat recovery£900£1755.2 yrs+7.4 pts
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£1805.6 yrs+7.6 pts · reaches E
High-performance doors£1,500 – £500£1447.0 yrs+6.1 pts
Low energy lighting£70£88.9 yrs+0.3 pts
Wind turbine£1,500 – £4,000£14918.5 yrs+6.3 pts · reaches D
Band A condensing boiler£2,200 – £3,000£11023.6 yrs+4.7 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£13935.9 yrs+5.9 pts
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£19446.4 yrs+8.2 pts · reaches C
Solar photovoltaic panels£9,000 – £14,000£16650+ yrs+7.0 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

£2,131
per year at grade F
£781
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £1,350 a year — a 4.0% annual return on £34,045.

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

30 April 2015£190,000

Estimated today: £266,613 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Andrew Common: 1 sales since 1995

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
The Fourfields Church of England School, SuttertonPrimary0.9 mi
Kirton Primary SchoolPrimary2.6 mi
Gosberton AcademyPrimary3.9 mi
Thomas Middlecott AcademySecondary2.2 miProgress 8 -0.78 · well below average (2023/24)
Cowley AcademySecondary5.3 miProgress 8 -0.12 · average (2023/24)
The Boston Grammar SchoolSecondary6.0 miProgress 8 -0.43 · 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.

14.2
crimes a month
128
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 30% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01026017, 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.