5 Beech Bottom, St. Albans AL3 5LP

Detached house · Built 1983-1990 · 152 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

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MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation(optional, beyond C)£4,000 – £6,000£12739.4 yrs+2.0 pts

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

£1,638
per year at grade C
£1,511
per year at grade C

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2023, states £1,059 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

11 July 2023£1,200,000

Estimated today: £1,281,064 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Beech Bottom: 5 sales since 1995

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Garden Fields Junior Mixed and Infant SchoolPrimaryunder 0.1 mi
Bernards Heath Junior SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Bernards Heath Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
St Albans Girls' SchoolSecondary0.5 miProgress 8 +0.55 · well above average (2023/24)
Townsend Church of England SchoolSecondary0.7 miProgress 8 +0.14 · average (2023/24)
Loreto CollegeSecondary0.8 miProgress 8 +0.71 · 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.

9.4
crimes a month
103
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 27% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01023670, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Beech Bottom

How this home sits against its street.

4
graded homes
79.8
average score
B
most common grade
-3.8
this home vs street
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