12 Daws Close, Cambridge CB1 9LE

Semi-Detached house · Built 1967-1975 · 174 m² · Owner-Occupied · No system present: electric heaters assumed

Upgrade Plan

EB for £9,600 · £3,200 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Change of heating system£3,000 – £7,000£2,5971.9 yrs+33.6 pts · reaches C
Low energy lighting£100£402.5 yrs+0.5 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£8425.3 yrs+10.9 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

£4,989
per year at grade E
£1,510
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £3,479 a year — a 36.2% annual return on £9,600.

Energy costs as modelled on the certificate, not a bill. This fuel has too few recent certificates to restate at today's prices.

Sold prices

22 February 2016£375,000

Estimated today: £418,353 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Daws Close: 9 sales since 1995 · £485,667 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
The Spinney Primary SchoolPrimary0.1 mi
Cherry Hinton Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Colville Primary SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
St Bede's Inter-Church SchoolSecondary0.4 miProgress 8 +1.02 · well above average (2023/24)
The Netherhall SchoolSecondary0.6 miProgress 8 +0.10 · average (2023/24)
Coleridge Community CollegeSecondary0.9 miProgress 8 +0.23 · 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.

7.3
crimes a month
58
in the last 12 months
Shoplifting
most common · 29% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01017964, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Daws Close

How this home sits against its street.

5
graded homes
61.2
average score
D
most common grade
-22.2
this home vs street
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