5 Dawes Lane, Wheathampstead, St. Albans AL4 8FF

Detached house · Built 1996-2002 · 116 m² · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

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MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Low energy lighting(optional, beyond C)£30 – £75typical£229.9 yrs+0.1 pts
Solar water heating(optional, beyond C)£5,000typical£3150+ yrs+0.9 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels(optional, beyond C)£4,500 – £9,000typical£3750+ yrs+1.1 pts

Grants verified 20 August 2026. Costs are the register’s indicative ranges, except where marked typical, which this certificate did not price and which are taken instead from comparable homes of the same type. 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

£1,342
per year at grade C
£1,272
per year at grade C

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2010, states £840 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

27 October 2015£847,500
14 December 2010£720,000
29 September 2006£620,000
28 January 2002£555,000

Estimated today: £1,114,682 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Dawes Lane: 40 sales since 1995 · £737,200 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
St Helen's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Beech Hyde Primary School and NurseryPrimary0.5 mi
High Beeches Primary SchoolPrimary2.0 mi
Katherine Warington SchoolSecondary1.9 miProgress 8 +0.48 · above average (2023/24)
Sir John Lawes SchoolSecondary2.4 miProgress 8 +0.79 · well above average (2023/24)
St George's SchoolSecondary2.7 miProgress 8 +0.65 · 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 · 35% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01023747, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Dawes Lane

How this home sits against its street.

12
graded homes
70.9
average score
C
most common grade
-1.9
this home vs street
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