Ashcroft, Orchard Close, Downham Market PE38 9LW

Detached bungalow · 2011 · 109 m² · Air source heat pump, underfloor, electric

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This certificate lists these measures but records the same score with and without them, so there is no saving or rating gain to attribute to any one of them. That usually means the assessment was incomplete — here the assessor recorded no heating system at all. The costs below are real; a fresh assessment would be the way to find the gain.

MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000
Solar photovoltaic panels£11,000 – £20,000

Grants verified 20 August 2026. Costs are the register’s indicative ranges.

Running costs

£1,391
per year at grade C

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2012, states £656 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

3 December 2021£312,500
30 April 2021£316,074
15 March 2016£270,000
20 May 2013£220,500

Estimated today: £326,928 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Orchard Close: 14 sales since 1995 · £339,644 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Downham Market, Hillcrest Primary SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Nelson AcademyPrimary0.4 mi
Denver Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolPrimary1.0 mi
Downham Market AcademySecondary0.2 miProgress 8 -0.06 · average (2023/24)
King's Lynn AcademySecondary10.3 miProgress 8 -0.64 · well below average (2023/24)
King Edward VII AcademySecondary10.6 miProgress 8 -0.35 · 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.

8.2
crimes a month
90
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 32% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01033036, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Orchard Close

How this home sits against its street.

7
graded homes
71.3
average score
C
most common grade
+3.7
this home vs street
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