Digwe, New Road, Lambourne End, Romford RM4 1AJ

Detached house · Built before 1900 · 235 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, oil

Upgrade Plan

GC for £33,403 · £8,351 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Hot water cylinder insulation£15 – £30£2790.1 yrs+5.2 pts · reaches F
Heating controls£350 – £450£1193.4 yrs+2.2 pts
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£2444.1 yrs+4.5 pts
Room-in-roof insulation£1,500 – £2,700£4504.7 yrs+8.3 pts
Low energy lighting£80£145.6 yrs+0.3 pts
High-performance doors£4,500 – £500£2619.6 yrs+4.8 pts · reaches E
Double glazing£1,000 – £1,400£11810.2 yrs+2.2 pts
Band A condensing boiler£2,200 – £3,000£20013.0 yrs+3.7 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£30214.9 yrs+5.6 pts
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£32615.3 yrs+6.0 pts · reaches D
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£25319.8 yrs+4.7 pts
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£35325.5 yrs+6.5 pts · reaches C
Wind turbine(optional, beyond C)£15,000 – £25,000£27050+ yrs+5.0 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

£5,553
per year at grade G
£2,365
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £2,918 a year — a 8.7% annual return on £33,403.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2022, states £3,388 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

23 May 2014£765,000

Estimated today: £1,175,634 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

New Road: 30 sales since 1995 · £1,013,125 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Lambourne Primary SchoolPrimary0.7 mi
Chigwell Row Infant SchoolPrimary1.2 mi
Stapleford Abbotts Primary AcademyPrimary1.7 mi
Forest AcademySecondary2.1 miProgress 8 +0.11 · average (2023/24)
Debden Park High SchoolSecondary2.2 miProgress 8 +0.02 · average (2023/24)
Davenant Foundation SchoolSecondary2.7 miProgress 8 +0.47 · above 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.

9.6
crimes a month
106
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 37% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01021770, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

New Road

How this home sits against its street.

24
graded homes
44.7
average score
E
most common grade
-26.7
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.