159 Macaulay Square, Great Shelford, Cambridge CB22 5AG

Semi-Detached house · Built 1976-1982 · 73 m² · Owner-Occupied · No system present: electric heaters assumed

Upgrade Plan

FC for £24,300 · £8,100 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Loft insulation£900 – £1,200£2214.7 yrs+4.8 pts
Change of heating system£3,500 – £10,000£1,3275.1 yrs+28.8 pts · reaches D
Floor insulation£5,000 – £10,000£46516.1 yrs+10.1 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£8,000 – £10,000£43020.9 yrs+9.3 pts · reaches C

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

£3,405
per year at grade F
£961
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £2,444 a year — a 10.1% annual return on £24,300.

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

12 November 1999£50,000

Estimated today: £202,745 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Macaulay Square: 16 sales since 1995 · £357,429 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Great and Little Shelford CofE (Aided) Primary SchoolPrimary0.8 mi
Stapleford Community Primary SchoolPrimary0.8 mi
Trumpington Park Primary SchoolPrimary1.4 mi
Cambridge Academy for Science and TechnologySecondary1.3 miProgress 8 +0.45 · above average (2023/24)
Trumpington Community CollegeSecondary1.7 miProgress 8 +0.61 · well above average (2023/24)
The Netherhall SchoolSecondary2.1 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.

6
crimes a month
48
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 38% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01018294, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Macaulay Square

How this home sits against its street.

33
graded homes
67.5
average score
C
most common grade
-44.5
this home vs street
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