4 Pine Close, Wickford SS12 9LP

End-Terrace bungalow · Built 1967-1975 · 44 m² · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DC for £17,149 · £17,149 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Hot water cylinder insulation£23 – £30typical£510.5 yrs+2.3 pts
Low energy lighting£15 – £30typical£38.7 yrs+0.1 pts
Wind turbine£2,750typical£4950+ yrs+2.3 pts
Band A condensing boiler£2,600typical£3650+ yrs+1.7 pts
Solar water heating£5,000typical£4650+ yrs+2.1 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£4,500 – £9,000typical£5550+ yrs+2.5 pts · reaches C

Grants verified 20 August 2026. Costs are the register’s indicative ranges, except where marked typical, which this certificate did not price and which are taken instead from comparable homes of the same type. 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

£1,015
per year at grade D
£775
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £240 a year — a 1.4% annual return on £17,149.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2011, states £650 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

17 August 2020£181,000
11 August 2011£130,000
29 May 1998£44,000

Estimated today: £218,162 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Pine Close: 76 sales since 1995 · £203,991 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Oakfield Primary SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Grange Primary SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
North Crescent Primary SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
The Bromfords SchoolSecondary0.4 miProgress 8 -0.50 · below average (2023/24)
Beauchamps High SchoolSecondary1.4 miProgress 8 -0.02 · average (2023/24)
The Basildon Lower AcademySecondary2.3 miNot in the KS4 performance tables

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.

14.3
crimes a month
157
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 37% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01021342, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Pine Close

How this home sits against its street.

29
graded homes
68.5
average score
C
most common grade
-8.5
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.