High Hedges, Hall Road, Hockley SS5 4JW

Detached bungalow · Built 1950-1966 · 125 m² · Owner-occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

FD for £10,060 · £5,030 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£4602.2 yrs+9.8 pts
Heating controls£350 – £450£1682.4 yrs+3.6 pts
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£3442.9 yrs+7.4 pts · reaches E
Low energy lighting£60£203.0 yrs+0.4 pts
Band A condensing boiler£2,200 – £3,000£2839.2 yrs+6.0 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£35714.0 yrs+7.6 pts · reaches D
Solar photovoltaic panels(optional, beyond D)£9,000 – £14,000£42627.0 yrs+9.1 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

£3,983
per year at grade F
£1,925
per year at grade D

The full plan saves £1,632 a year — a 16.2% annual return on £10,060.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2014, states £2,767 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

29 January 2016£270,000
20 November 2014£270,000

Estimated today: £376,718 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Hall Road: 5 sales since 1995

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Lift WesteringsPrimary0.7 mi
Holt Farm Infant SchoolPrimary1.3 mi
Holt Farm Junior SchoolPrimary1.3 mi
Lift GreenswardSecondary1.2 miProgress 8 -0.08 · average (2023/24)
The King Edmund SchoolSecondary1.4 miProgress 8 -0.83 · well below average (2023/24)
The Eastwood AcademySecondary1.8 miProgress 8 +0.44 · 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.

26.5
crimes a month
292
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 60% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01021954, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.