2 Cell Barnes Close, St. Albans AL1 5QF

Semi-Detached house · Built 1967-1975 · 103 m² · Owner-Occupied · Air source heat pump, radiators, electric

Upgrade Plan

CB for £9,500 · £9,500 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£8850+ yrs+6.5 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£7350+ yrs+5.5 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

£1,549
per year at grade C
£1,388
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £161 a year — a 1.7% annual return on £9,500.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2024, states £1,358 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

29 May 2015£390,000
5 October 2000£145,000

Estimated today: £568,148 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Cell Barnes Close: 9 sales since 1995

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Cunningham Hill Junior SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Cunningham Hill Infant SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Samuel Ryder AcademyAll-through0.2 miProgress 8 +0.35 · above average (2023/24)
Verulam SchoolSecondary1.0 miProgress 8 +0.40 · above average (2023/24)
Nicholas Breakspear Catholic SchoolSecondary1.1 miProgress 8 +0.75 · well 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.

Cell Barnes Close

How this home sits against its street.

11
graded homes
68.2
average score
C
most common grade
+4.8
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.