2 Maxwell Road, St. Albans AL1 5LA

Semi-Detached house · Built 1930-1949 · 101 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DB for £20,520 · £10,260 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Low energy lighting£20£53.8 yrs+0.2 pts
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£1198.4 yrs+4.6 pts
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£8911.3 yrs+3.4 pts · reaches C
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£11040.9 yrs+4.2 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£9250+ yrs+3.6 pts
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£12850+ yrs+5.0 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

£1,619
per year at grade D
£1,076
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £543 a year — a 2.6% annual return on £20,520.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2022, states £972 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

1 October 2024£695,000
28 February 2023£680,000

Estimated today: £713,130 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Maxwell Road: 31 sales since 1995 · £624,977 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Camp Primary and Nursery SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Fleetville Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Fleetville Junior SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Verulam SchoolSecondary0.5 miProgress 8 +0.40 · above average (2023/24)
Beaumont SchoolSecondary0.6 miProgress 8 +0.89 · well above average (2023/24)
Nicholas Breakspear Catholic SchoolSecondary0.9 miProgress 8 +0.75 · 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.

7.2
crimes a month
65
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 29% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01023665, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Maxwell Road

How this home sits against its street.

17
graded homes
61.7
average score
D
most common grade
+1.3
this home vs street
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