522 Coldhams Lane, Cambridge CB1 3JL

Detached house · Built 1930-1949 · 139 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DC for £16,750 · £16,750 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£5,000 – £10,000£12150+ yrs+3.0 pts
Solid wall insulation£7,500 – £11,000£13150+ yrs+3.2 pts · reaches C
Solar photovoltaic panels(optional, beyond C)£8,000 – £10,000£11250+ yrs+2.8 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

£1,949
per year at grade D
£1,584
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £253 a year — a 1.5% annual return on £16,750.

Energy costs as modelled on the certificate, not a bill.

Sold prices

23 August 2006£290,000

Estimated today: £599,375 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Coldhams Lane: 298 sales since 1995 · £415,786 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
The Spinney Primary SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Cherry Hinton Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Bewick Bridge Community Primary SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
St Bede's Inter-Church SchoolSecondary0.5 miProgress 8 +1.02 · well above average (2023/24)
Coleridge Community CollegeSecondary1.0 miProgress 8 +0.23 · above average (2023/24)
The Netherhall SchoolSecondary1.0 miProgress 8 +0.10 · 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
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 39% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01017962, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Coldhams Lane

How this home sits against its street.

258
graded homes
67.4
average score
C
most common grade
-1.4
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.