1a Barry Close, St. Albans AL2 3HN

Detached house · Built 1983-1990 · 105 m² · Owner-occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

CB for £12,530 · £12,530 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Low energy lighting£30£38.8 yrs+0.3 pts
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£7812.9 yrs+6.6 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£9,000 – £14,000£7250+ yrs+6.1 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

£1,120
per year at grade C
£967
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £153 a year — a 1.2% annual return on £12,530.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2014, states £772 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

30 November 2023£660,000
6 July 2009£360,000
24 July 1998£177,500

Estimated today: £706,756 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Barry Close: 23 sales since 1995

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Killigrew Primary and Nursery SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
How Wood Primary and Nursery SchoolPrimary0.8 mi
St Adrian Roman Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary0.8 mi
The Marlborough Science AcademySecondary0.8 miProgress 8 -0.10 · average (2023/24)
Loreto CollegeSecondary2.0 miProgress 8 +0.71 · well above average (2023/24)
Parmiter's SchoolSecondary2.3 miProgress 8 +0.74 · 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.

12.1
crimes a month
133
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 26% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01023731, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Barry Close

How this home sits against its street.

9
graded homes
67.3
average score
D
most common grade
+3.7
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.