20 Cavendish Road, St. Albans AL1 5EE

Mid-Terrace house · Built 1900-1929 · 54 m² · Rented (Private) · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DC for £8,090 · £8,090 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Low energy lighting£15£43.8 yrs+0.2 pts
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£9011.1 yrs+4.0 pts
Heating controls£350 – £450£3312.2 yrs+1.5 pts
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£6714.8 yrs+3.0 pts
Flat roof insulation£850 – £1,500£6917.2 yrs+3.1 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£8450+ yrs+3.7 pts · reaches C
Solar water heating(optional, beyond C)£4,000 – £6,000£7050+ yrs+3.1 pts
Solid wall insulation(optional, beyond C)£4,000 – £14,000£9850+ yrs+4.4 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

£2,061
per year at grade D
£1,547
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £346 a year — a 4.3% annual return on £8,090.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2023, states £1,702 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

17 August 2007£289,950
8 December 2004£220,000
15 August 2001£160,000
13 June 1996£72,500

Estimated today: £556,083 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Cavendish Road: 194 sales since 1995 · £556,384 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
St Alban & St Stephen Catholic Primary School & NurseryPrimaryunder 0.1 mi
Fleetville Junior SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Fleetville Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Loreto CollegeSecondary0.4 miProgress 8 +0.71 · well above average (2023/24)
Verulam SchoolSecondary0.4 miProgress 8 +0.40 · above average (2023/24)
Beaumont SchoolSecondary1.0 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.

19.7
crimes a month
197
in the last 12 months
Shoplifting
most common · 25% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01023674, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Cavendish Road

How this home sits against its street.

61
graded homes
59.9
average score
D
most common grade
-2.9
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.