5 Duncan Close, Welwyn Garden City AL7 3XP

End-Terrace house · Built 1983-1990 · 67 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

CB for £6,000 · £6,000 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£6,000 – £0£3550+ yrs+5.6 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£5,500 – £500£3250+ yrs+5.1 pts · reaches B
Solar water heating(optional, beyond B)£6,000 – £0£2750+ yrs+4.3 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

£833
per year at grade C
£739
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £67 a year — a 1.1% annual return on £6,000.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2020, states £525 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

4 March 2021£365,000
9 December 2016£353,500
1 February 2010£200,000
24 August 2006£189,950
20 December 1996£79,000
20 December 1996£80,000

Estimated today: £410,422 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Duncan Close: 115 sales since 1995 · £305,359 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Holwell Primary SchoolPrimaryunder 0.1 mi
Peartree Primary SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Our Lady Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Ridgeway AcademySecondary0.9 miProgress 8 -0.47 · below average (2023/24)
Stanborough SchoolSecondary1.1 miProgress 8 +0.18 · average (2023/24)
Monk's Walk SchoolSecondary1.8 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.

13.5
crimes a month
149
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 40% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01023957, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Duncan Close

How this home sits against its street.

37
graded homes
67.6
average score
C
most common grade
+6.4
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.