5 Mountbatten Close, St. Albans AL1 5AX

Semi-Detached house · Built 1983-1990 · 48 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

CB for £6,460 · £6,460 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Low energy lighting£10£33.7 yrs+0.3 pts
Heating controls£450£2220.0 yrs+2.5 pts
Floor insulation£6,000 – £0£6248.6 yrs+6.8 pts
Solar water heating£6,000 – £0£4850+ yrs+5.2 pts · reaches B
Solar photovoltaic panels(optional, beyond B)£8,000 – £0£5750+ yrs+6.3 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

£761
per year at grade C
£569
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £135 a year — a 2.1% annual return on £6,460.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2015, states £522 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

4 September 2020£260,000
14 September 2016£239,000
10 July 2015£205,000

Estimated today: £305,442 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Mountbatten Close: 31 sales since 1995

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Samuel Ryder AcademyAll-through0.1 miProgress 8 +0.35 · above average (2023/24)
Windermere Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Cunningham Hill Infant SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Nicholas Breakspear Catholic SchoolSecondary1.0 miProgress 8 +0.75 · well above average (2023/24)
Verulam SchoolSecondary1.1 miProgress 8 +0.40 · above average (2023/24)
Beaumont SchoolSecondary1.1 miProgress 8 +0.89 · 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.

30.2
crimes a month
332
in the last 12 months
Shoplifting
most common · 38% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01023683, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Mountbatten Close

How this home sits against its street.

28
graded homes
73.4
average score
C
most common grade
-3.4
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.