Crane Cottage, Drummers Hill, St. Austell PL26 8XR

Detached house · Built before 1900 · 191 m² · Owner-occupied · Boiler and radiators, oil

Upgrade Plan

EB for £6,950 · £2,317 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Loft insulation£100 – £350£1801.2 yrs+3.8 pts
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£3782.6 yrs+8.0 pts · reaches D
Heating controls£350 – £450£1382.9 yrs+2.9 pts
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£2833.5 yrs+6.0 pts
Low energy lighting£75£174.5 yrs+0.4 pts · reaches C
High-performance doors£2,500 – £500£3035.0 yrs+6.4 pts
Wind turbine£1,500 – £4,000£3148.8 yrs+6.6 pts · reaches B
Band A condensing boiler(optional, beyond B)£2,200 – £3,000£23211.2 yrs+4.9 pts

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

£3,172
per year at grade E
£1,328
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £1,612 a year — a 23.2% annual return on £6,950.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2014, states £2,811 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

28 June 2021£450,000
26 July 1999£152,000
1 December 1998£145,000
18 September 1997£90,000

Estimated today: £485,499 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Drummers Hill: 8 sales since 1995 · £316,667 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Carclaze Community Primary SchoolPrimary0.9 mi
Sandy Hill AcademyPrimary1.4 mi
Treverbyn AcademyPrimary1.5 mi
Poltair SchoolSecondary1.1 miProgress 8 +0.26 · above average (2023/24)
Penrice AcademySecondary1.8 miProgress 8 +0.32 · above average (2023/24)
Brannel SchoolSecondary4.6 miProgress 8 +0.02 · 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.

15.3
crimes a month
168
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 39% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01019034, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Drummers Hill

How this home sits against its street.

8
graded homes
53.6
average score
C
most common grade
-5.6
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.