5 Buttermere Close, St. Albans AL1 5TD

End-Terrace maisonette · Built 1967-1975 · 57 m² · Unknown · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DC for £1,000 · £1,000 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£8911.2 yrs+3.0 pts · reaches C

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

£966
per year at grade D
£877
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £89 a year — a 8.9% annual return on £1,000.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2019, states £608 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

13 January 2023£290,000
30 January 2020£240,000
24 April 2015£226,000
7 July 2014£172,000
28 February 2013£154,000
4 February 2005£135,000
1 May 1998£64,950

Estimated today: £291,160 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Buttermere Close: 28 sales since 1995 · £447,438 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Windermere Primary SchoolPrimaryunder 0.1 mi
Camp Primary and Nursery SchoolPrimary0.1 mi
Cunningham Hill Infant SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Verulam SchoolSecondary0.8 miProgress 8 +0.40 · above average (2023/24)
Beaumont SchoolSecondary0.8 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.

16.2
crimes a month
178
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 42% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01023681, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Buttermere Close

How this home sits against its street.

33
graded homes
74
average score
C
most common grade
-8.0
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.