Monkey Puzzle Cottage, Meadow Road, Tunbridge Wells TN3 9RG

Semi-Detached house · Built 1900-1929 · 81 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DB for £28,000 · £14,000 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Flat roof insulation£900 – £1,200£7913.3 yrs+3.5 pts
Cavity wall insulation£900 – £1,500£7715.5 yrs+3.5 pts · reaches C
Floor insulation£5,000 – £10,000£10450+ yrs+4.7 pts
Solid wall insulation£7,500 – £11,000£11250+ yrs+5.0 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£8,000 – £10,000£9650+ yrs+4.3 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

£1,485
per year at grade D
£1,017
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £468 a year — a 1.7% annual return on £28,000.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2026, states £1,368 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

5 December 2024£360,000
29 February 2024£350,000
9 March 2015£265,000

Estimated today: £359,623 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Meadow Road: 20 sales since 1995 · £525,750 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Groombridge St Thomas' Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Langton Green Primary SchoolPrimary1.7 mi
Fordcombe Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary2.0 mi
Bennett Memorial Diocesan SchoolSecondary3.4 miProgress 8 +0.73 · well above average (2023/24)
St Gregory's Catholic SchoolSecondary3.8 miProgress 8 +0.17 · average (2023/24)
Tunbridge Wells Girls' Grammar SchoolSecondary3.9 miProgress 8 +0.77 · well 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.

5
crimes a month
30
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 43% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01021172, to 2026-04. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Meadow Road

How this home sits against its street.

9
graded homes
64.2
average score
D
most common grade
-2.2
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.