5 Ditton Lane, Cambridge CB5 8SP

Semi-Detached house · Built 1930-1949 · 86 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DB for £15,530 · £7,765 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Low energy lighting£30£47.4 yrs+0.2 pts
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£9210.8 yrs+5.4 pts · reaches C
Heating controls£350 – £450£3411.9 yrs+2.0 pts
Band A condensing boiler£2,200 – £3,000£5745.8 yrs+3.3 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£7250+ yrs+4.2 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£5,000 – £8,000£8650+ yrs+5.0 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

£1,232
per year at grade D
£888
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £344 a year — a 2.2% annual return on £15,530.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2015, states £853 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

11 September 2007£242,000
25 August 2005£185,000
7 May 2004£199,995
27 July 2001£138,400
19 January 1996£65,500

Estimated today: £438,143 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Ditton Lane: 91 sales since 1995 · £417,407 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
The Galfrid SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Marleigh Primary AcademyPrimary0.5 mi
Fen Ditton Primary SchoolPrimary0.7 mi
Coleridge Community CollegeSecondary1.6 miProgress 8 +0.23 · above average (2023/24)
St Bede's Inter-Church SchoolSecondary1.6 miProgress 8 +1.02 · well above average (2023/24)
North Cambridge AcademySecondary1.7 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.

23.2
crimes a month
255
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 33% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01017948, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Ditton Lane

How this home sits against its street.

46
graded homes
64.1
average score
D
most common grade
-0.1
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.