2 Catham Close, St. Albans AL1 5QT

Semi-Detached house · Built 1950-1966 · 91 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

CB for £10,015 · £10,015 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Low energy lighting£15£35.4 yrs+0.2 pts
Floor insulation£6,000 – £0£6347.6 yrs+5.1 pts
Solar water heating£6,000 – £0£4950+ yrs+4.0 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£8,000 – £0£5850+ yrs+4.7 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

£1,143
per year at grade C
£970
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £173 a year — a 1.7% annual return on £10,015.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2017, states £774 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

24 July 2023£625,000
26 June 2017£495,000

Estimated today: £682,169 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Catham Close: 43 sales since 1995 · £500,731 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Windermere Primary SchoolPrimary0.1 mi
Cunningham Hill Junior SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Cunningham Hill Infant SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Verulam SchoolSecondary0.9 miProgress 8 +0.40 · above average (2023/24)
Nicholas Breakspear Catholic SchoolSecondary0.9 miProgress 8 +0.75 · well 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.

11
crimes a month
110
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 28% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01023682, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Catham Close

How this home sits against its street.

28
graded homes
66.1
average score
C
most common grade
+2.9
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.