Shellys Cottage, Whitehill, Dane End, Ware SG12 0JT

Detached house · Built 1900-1929 · 353 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, oil

Upgrade Plan

ED for £2,150 · £2,150 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Room-in-roof insulation£2,700 – £700£3025.6 yrs+4.2 pts
Heating controls£450£805.7 yrs+1.1 pts · reaches D
Floor insulation(optional, beyond D)£6,000 – £0£21913.7 yrs+3.1 pts
Low energy lighting(optional, beyond D)£150£1015.7 yrs+0.1 pts
Solar water heating(optional, beyond D)£6,000 – £0£17017.7 yrs+2.4 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels(optional, beyond D)£8,000 – £0£20219.8 yrs+2.8 pts
Solid wall insulation(optional, beyond D)£14,000 – £0£23629.6 yrs+3.3 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

£4,347
per year at grade E
£3,129
per year at grade D

The full plan saves £381 a year — a 17.7% annual return on £2,150.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2017, states £2,662 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

30 April 1999£495,000

Estimated today: £2,106,255 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Whitehill: 6 sales since 1995 · £1,225,000 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Little Munden Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolPrimary0.9 mi
Puller Memorial, Church of England, Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolPrimary1.9 mi
Thundridge Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary2.5 mi
The Chauncy SchoolSecondary4.0 miProgress 8 +0.53 · well above average (2023/24)
Presdales SchoolSecondary4.8 miProgress 8 +0.61 · well above average (2023/24)
Freman CollegeSecondary5.5 miProgress 8 +0.58 · well 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.

5.5
crimes a month
55
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 45% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01023495, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Whitehill

How this home sits against its street.

5
graded homes
30.6
average score
E
most common grade
+19.4
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.