5 Barnfield Road, Harpenden AL5 5TH

Semi-Detached house · Built 1930-1949 · 130 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DC for £11,850 · £11,850 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Band A condensing boiler£2,200 – £3,500£7338.8 yrs+2.8 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£8,000 – £10,000£11150+ yrs+4.2 pts · reaches C

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

£1,922
per year at grade D
£1,738
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £184 a year — a 1.6% annual return on £11,850.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2025, states £1,573 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

6 March 2014£650,000
1 February 2006£395,000
28 July 2004£378,000
3 August 2001£275,000
12 September 2000£190,000

Estimated today: £1,066,924 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Barnfield Road: 98 sales since 1995 · £888,531 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
The Grove Junior SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
The Grove Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
High Beeches Primary SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Sir John Lawes SchoolSecondary0.9 miProgress 8 +0.79 · well above average (2023/24)
St George's SchoolSecondary1.0 miProgress 8 +0.65 · well above average (2023/24)
Katherine Warington SchoolSecondary1.0 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.

Barnfield Road

How this home sits against its street.

35
graded homes
59
average score
D
most common grade
+5.0
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.