1 Bronte Close, St. Albans AL4 0FX

Semi-Detached house · 2019 · 69 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

BA for £9,500 · £9,500 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£2350+ yrs+7.1 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£2050+ yrs+5.9 pts · reaches A

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

£501
per year at grade B
£458
per year at grade A

The full plan saves £43 a year — a 0.5% annual return on £9,500.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2021, states £312 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

28 May 2021£550,000

Estimated today: £654,087 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Bronte Close: 27 sales since 1995 · £837,111 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Oakwood Primary SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Fleetville Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
Camp Primary and Nursery SchoolPrimary0.7 mi
Beaumont SchoolSecondary0.1 miProgress 8 +0.89 · well above average (2023/24)
Nicholas Breakspear Catholic SchoolSecondary0.6 miProgress 8 +0.75 · well above average (2023/24)
Verulam SchoolSecondary0.8 miProgress 8 +0.40 · 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.

7
crimes a month
70
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 37% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01023664, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Bronte Close

How this home sits against its street.

24
graded homes
85.3
average score
B
most common grade
-1.3
this home vs street
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