3 Rye Close, Harpenden AL5 4LD

Semi-Detached house · Built 1950-1966 · 193 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

CB for £9,500 · £9,500 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£4850+ yrs+3.3 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£4050+ yrs+2.7 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

£1,748
per year at grade C
£1,660
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £88 a year — a 0.9% annual return on £9,500.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2024, states £1,825 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

10 March 2025£982,500
13 July 2012£320,000
19 August 2008£249,950

Estimated today: £1,035,134 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Rye Close: 22 sales since 1995 · £639,667 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
The Lea Primary School and NurseryPrimary0.1 mi
Manland Primary SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Sauncey Wood Primary SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
St George's SchoolSecondary0.5 miProgress 8 +0.65 · well above average (2023/24)
Sir John Lawes SchoolSecondary0.5 miProgress 8 +0.79 · well above average (2023/24)
Katherine Warington SchoolSecondary0.9 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.

9
crimes a month
99
in the last 12 months
Anti-social behaviour
most common · 34% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01023693, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Rye Close

How this home sits against its street.

7
graded homes
66.6
average score
C
most common grade
+10.4
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.