Hunters Mead, Throcking Road, Cottered, Buntingford SG9 9RB

Detached house · Built 1900-1929 · 265 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, wood pellets

Upgrade Plan

CB for £10,000 · £10,000 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£6,000 – £0£20614.6 yrs+6.9 pts
Solid wall insulation£14,000 – £0£22331.5 yrs+7.4 pts · reaches B
Wind turbine(optional, beyond B)£25,000 – £0£17150+ yrs+5.7 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

£2,218
per year at grade C
£1,619
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £428 a year — a 4.3% annual return on £10,000.

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

22 October 2014£1,095,000
25 July 2002£490,500

Estimated today: £1,623,195 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Throcking Road: 7 sales since 1995 · £912,500 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Millfield First and Nursery SchoolPrimary2.1 mi
Ardeley St Lawrence Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolPrimary2.1 mi
Layston Church of England First SchoolPrimary2.3 mi
Freman CollegeSecondary1.8 miProgress 8 +0.58 · well above average (2023/24)
The Nobel SchoolSecondary5.0 miProgress 8 +0.38 · above average (2023/24)
Marriotts SchoolSecondary5.7 miProgress 8 -0.37 · 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.

10.7
crimes a month
118
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 46% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01023494, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Throcking Road

How this home sits against its street.

7
graded homes
52.4
average score
F
most common grade
+16.6
this home vs street
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