53 Southdown Road, Harpenden AL5 1PQ

Semi-Detached house · Built 1900-1929 · 141 m² · Owner-occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

EB for £31,780 · £10,593 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Draughtproofing£80 – £120£1900.5 yrs+4.7 pts · reaches D
Loft insulation£100 – £350£1072.1 yrs+2.7 pts
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£2254.4 yrs+5.6 pts
Low energy lighting£55£105.6 yrs+0.2 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£17528.6 yrs+4.4 pts · reaches C
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£24436.9 yrs+6.1 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£9,000 – £14,000£20950+ yrs+5.2 pts
Double glazing£3,300 – £6,500£8250+ yrs+2.0 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

£2,444
per year at grade E
£1,203
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £1,241 a year — a 3.9% annual return on £31,780.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2013, states £1,538 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

4 October 2018£1,045,000
18 October 2013£850,000
15 December 1997£260,000

Estimated today: £1,266,884 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Southdown Road: 235 sales since 1995 · £476,728 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
St Dominic Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
The Grove Junior SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
The Grove Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
St George's SchoolSecondary0.9 miProgress 8 +0.65 · well above average (2023/24)
Sir John Lawes SchoolSecondary0.9 miProgress 8 +0.79 · well above average (2023/24)
Katherine Warington SchoolSecondary1.1 miProgress 8 +0.48 · 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.

5.8
crimes a month
52
in the last 12 months
Shoplifting
most common · 25% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01023703, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Southdown Road

How this home sits against its street.

96
graded homes
70.8
average score
C
most common grade
-18.8
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.