2 Hurst Close, Welwyn Garden City AL7 2HX

Detached house · Built 1991-1995 · 91 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DB for £12,500 · £6,250 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Heating controls£350 – £450£478.5 yrs+2.2 pts
Band A condensing boiler£2,200 – £3,000£8032.6 yrs+3.7 pts · reaches C
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£12037.4 yrs+5.5 pts
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£13038.5 yrs+6.0 pts · reaches B
Solar water heating(optional, beyond B)£4,000 – £6,000£10149.6 yrs+4.6 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

£1,410
per year at grade D
£932
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £377 a year — a 3.0% annual return on £12,500.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2021, states £855 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

21 March 2025£625,000
8 April 2022£506,000
27 October 2016£450,000
31 July 2013£325,000
26 May 2000£164,950

Estimated today: £637,318 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Hurst Close: 15 sales since 1995 · £539,571 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Watchlytes Primary SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Springmead Primary SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
Swallow Dell Primary and Nursery SchoolPrimary0.8 mi
Ridgeway AcademySecondary0.7 miProgress 8 -0.47 · below average (2023/24)
Stanborough SchoolSecondary2.2 miProgress 8 +0.18 · average (2023/24)
Monk's Walk SchoolSecondary2.6 miProgress 8 +0.24 · 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.

5.6
crimes a month
39
in the last 12 months
Vehicle crime
most common · 26% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01023953, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Hurst Close

How this home sits against its street.

6
graded homes
73
average score
C
most common grade
-9.0
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.