253 Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8RP

Semi-Detached house · Built 1900-1929 · 221 m² · Owner-Occupied · Air source heat pump, radiators, electric

Upgrade Plan

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MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Solar water heating(optional, beyond C)£4,000 – £6,000£24920.1 yrs+2.5 pts
Solid wall insulation(optional, beyond C)£4,000 – £14,000£34725.9 yrs+3.5 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

£2,711
per year at grade C
£2,115
per year at grade C

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2025, states £2,360 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

3 September 2002£650,000

Estimated today: £1,713,798 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Hills Road: 534 sales since 1995 · £735,883 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Morley Memorial Primary SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Queen Edith Primary SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Queen Emma Primary SchoolPrimary0.8 mi
Cambridge Academy for Science and TechnologySecondary0.5 miProgress 8 +0.45 · above average (2023/24)
Trumpington Community CollegeSecondary0.8 miProgress 8 +0.61 · well above 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.

5
crimes a month
40
in the last 12 months
Anti-social behaviour
most common · 32% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01035520, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Hills Road

How this home sits against its street.

339
graded homes
71.1
average score
B
most common grade
+1.9
this home vs street
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