3 Dormie Close, St. Albans AL3 5TS

Semi-Detached house · Built 1950-1966 · 89 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

CB for £16,500 · £16,500 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£4050+ yrs+4.4 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£3150+ yrs+3.4 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£5,000 – £8,000£3750+ yrs+4.1 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

£1,055
per year at grade C
£947
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £108 a year — a 0.7% annual return on £16,500.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2018, states £679 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

18 October 2023£603,000
25 June 2018£510,000
29 September 2006£289,950
4 August 2004£219,995
3 April 2001£150,000
29 February 1996£12,000

Estimated today: £651,461 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Dormie Close: 9 sales since 1995 · £568,250 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Garden Fields Junior Mixed and Infant SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Aboyne Lodge Junior Mixed and Infant SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
Margaret Wix Primary SchoolPrimary0.7 mi
Townsend Church of England SchoolSecondary0.8 miProgress 8 +0.14 · average (2023/24)
St Albans Girls' SchoolSecondary0.9 miProgress 8 +0.55 · well above average (2023/24)
Loreto CollegeSecondary1.0 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.

10.5
crimes a month
105
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 43% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01023669, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Dormie Close

How this home sits against its street.

6
graded homes
68
average score
C
most common grade
+4.0
this home vs street
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