Higher Cottage, Higher Swell, Fivehead, Taunton TA3 6PZ

Detached house · Built before 1900 · 129 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, LPG, Electric underfloor heating

Upgrade Plan

FB for £46,500 · £11,625 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£1198.4 yrs+7.0 pts · reaches E
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£16031.3 yrs+9.3 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£12440.3 yrs+7.2 pts · reaches D
Solar photovoltaic panels£5,000 – £8,000£14844.0 yrs+8.6 pts
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£17350+ yrs+10.1 pts · reaches C
Wind turbine£15,000 – £25,000£13250+ yrs+7.7 pts · reaches B

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

£2,069
per year at grade F
£1,213
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £856 a year — a 1.8% annual return on £46,500.

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

11 April 2017£400,000

Estimated today: £533,696 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Higher Swell: 8 sales since 1995 · £675,000 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Curry Rivel Church of England VC Primary SchoolPrimary1.9 mi
Hambridge Community Primary SchoolPrimary2.1 mi
Curry Mallet Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary2.5 mi
Huish Episcopi AcademySecondary4.3 miProgress 8 -0.13 · average (2023/24)
Monkton Wood AcademySecondary7.2 miAttainment 8 41.4 · no Progress 8 published
Bishop Fox's SchoolSecondary8.2 miProgress 8 +0.17 · 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.

4.4
crimes a month
35
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 66% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01029197, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Higher Swell

How this home sits against its street.

4
graded homes
57.3
average score
C
most common grade
-24.3
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.