Forest Gate Cottage, The Common, Fordingbridge SP6 2BQ

Detached house · Built 1900-1929 · 111 m² · Owner-Occupied · Room heaters, electric

Upgrade Plan

ED for £2,500 · £2,500 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
High-retention storage heaters£2,000 – £3,000£5994.2 yrs+11.0 pts · reaches D
Floor insulation(optional, beyond D)£800 – £6,000£30411.2 yrs+5.6 pts
Solar water heating(optional, beyond D)£4,000 – £6,000£23621.2 yrs+4.3 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

£3,291
per year at grade E
£2,152
per year at grade D

The full plan saves £599 a year — a 24.0% annual return on £2,500.

Energy costs as modelled on the certificate, not a bill.

Sold prices

18 December 2024£760,000
1 September 2022£692,000
16 November 2010£385,000

Estimated today: £741,463 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

The Common: 32 sales since 1995 · £706,906 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Breamore Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary1.1 mi
Hale Primary SchoolPrimary1.6 mi
Fordingbridge Junior SchoolPrimary2.1 mi
The Burgate School and Sixth FormSecondary2.0 miProgress 8 +0.17 · average (2023/24)
The Trafalgar School at DowntonSecondary2.3 miProgress 8 -0.02 · average (2023/24)
Ringwood School AcademySecondary7.6 miProgress 8 +0.35 · 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.

6
crimes a month
54
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 39% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01023012, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

The Common

How this home sits against its street.

20
graded homes
45.9
average score
E
most common grade
+0.1
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.