2 Anson Close, St. Albans AL1 5SD

Semi-Detached house · Built 1930-1949 · 119 m² · Owner-occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

CB for £13,790 · £13,790 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Loft insulation£100 – £350£544.2 yrs+2.4 pts
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£1138.9 yrs+5.0 pts
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£8411.9 yrs+3.7 pts
Low energy lighting£65£513.2 yrs+0.2 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£9,000 – £14,000£10450+ yrs+4.6 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

£1,332
per year at grade C
£972
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £360 a year — a 2.6% annual return on £13,790.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2013, states £873 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

16 February 2001£161,500

Estimated today: £585,369 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Anson Close: 7 sales since 1995

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Samuel Ryder AcademyAll-through0.2 miProgress 8 +0.35 · above average (2023/24)
Cunningham Hill Junior SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Cunningham Hill Infant SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Verulam SchoolSecondary1.0 miProgress 8 +0.40 · above average (2023/24)
Loreto CollegeSecondary1.1 miProgress 8 +0.71 · well above average (2023/24)
Nicholas Breakspear Catholic SchoolSecondary1.1 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.

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.

Anson Close

How this home sits against its street.

9
graded homes
65.1
average score
D
most common grade
+3.9
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.