81 Brampton Road, St. Albans AL1 4QA

Detached house · Built 1991-1995 · 171 m² · Owner-occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DC for £5,670 · £5,670 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£1228.2 yrs+3.6 pts
Low energy lighting£70£513.1 yrs+0.2 pts
High-performance doors£4,000 – £0£9720.5 yrs+2.9 pts
Band A condensing boiler£2,200 – £3,000£7534.7 yrs+2.2 pts · reaches C
Solar water heating(optional, beyond C)£4,000 – £6,000£9550+ yrs+2.8 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels(optional, beyond C)£9,000 – £14,000£11350+ yrs+3.3 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

£2,258
per year at grade D
£1,751
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £300 a year — a 5.3% annual return on £5,670.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2012, states £1,333 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

20 June 2013£850,000
16 September 2005£619,000
14 February 1997£206,000

Estimated today: £1,450,982 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Brampton Road: 199 sales since 1995

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Fleetville Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary0.1 mi
Fleetville Junior SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
St Alban & St Stephen Catholic Primary School & NurseryPrimary0.5 mi
Verulam SchoolSecondary0.2 miProgress 8 +0.40 · above average (2023/24)
Beaumont SchoolSecondary0.6 miProgress 8 +0.89 · well above average (2023/24)
Loreto CollegeSecondary0.7 miProgress 8 +0.71 · 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.

7
crimes a month
21
in the last 12 months
Vehicle crime
most common · 24% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01023675, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Brampton Road

How this home sits against its street.

74
graded homes
59.7
average score
D
most common grade
+1.3
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.