44 Offas Way, Wheathampstead, St. Albans AL4 8PD

Semi-Detached maisonette · Built 1950-1966 · 68 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DC for £855 · £855 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Hot water cylinder insulation£30£1380.2 yrs+4.4 pts
Low energy lighting£25£73.5 yrs+0.2 pts
Loft insulation£350£774.5 yrs+2.5 pts
Heating controls£450£597.6 yrs+1.9 pts · reaches C
Cavity wall insulation(optional, beyond C)£1,500 – £500£1218.3 yrs+3.9 pts
Band A condensing boiler(optional, beyond C)£3,000 – £0£9915.1 yrs+3.2 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

£1,199
per year at grade D
£697
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £282 a year — a 33.0% annual return on £855.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2015, states £836 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

29 July 2005£157,000
27 August 1998£66,000
13 December 1995£58,000

Estimated today: £286,076 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Offas Way: 42 sales since 1995 · £428,221 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Beech Hyde Primary School and NurseryPrimary0.2 mi
St Helen's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
The Grove Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary1.9 mi
Katherine Warington SchoolSecondary2.0 miProgress 8 +0.48 · above average (2023/24)
Sir John Lawes SchoolSecondary2.5 miProgress 8 +0.79 · well above average (2023/24)
Sandringham SchoolSecondary2.7 miProgress 8 +1.06 · 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.

10.2
crimes a month
112
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 48% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01023746, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Offas Way

How this home sits against its street.

62
graded homes
71.5
average score
C
most common grade
-10.5
this home vs street
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