2 The Mallards, River Lane, Cambridge CB5 8HJ

Mid-Terrace maisonette · Built 1983-1990 · 53 m² · Owner-Occupied · Electric storage heaters, Room heaters, electric

Upgrade Plan

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MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
High-performance doors(optional, beyond C)£1,000 – £0£539.5 yrs+1.5 pts
High-retention storage heaters(optional, beyond C)£1,200 – £1,800£13011.6 yrs+3.7 pts
Floor insulation(optional, beyond C)£4,000 – £6,000£6650+ yrs+1.9 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

£988
per year at grade C
£740
per year at grade C

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2019, states £582 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

14 September 2023£400,000
9 October 2015£345,000
2 January 2004£205,500
5 July 2002£178,000
10 September 1997£71,000

Estimated today: £377,343 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

The Mallards: 46 sales since 1995 · £373,014 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
St Matthew's Primary SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Chesterton Primary SchoolPrimary0.7 mi
Milton Road Primary SchoolPrimary0.8 mi
Parkside Community CollegeSecondary0.7 miProgress 8 +0.80 · well above average (2023/24)
Chesterton Community CollegeSecondary1.0 miProgress 8 +1.05 · well above average (2023/24)
North Cambridge AcademySecondary1.0 miProgress 8 +0.19 · 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.

34.4
crimes a month
378
in the last 12 months
Shoplifting
most common · 36% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01017943, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

The Mallards

How this home sits against its street.

20
graded homes
68.4
average score
C
most common grade
+3.6
this home vs street
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