153 Rye Street, Bishop's Stortford CM23 2HE

Semi-Detached house · Built 1900-1929 · 99 m² · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

ED for £17,520 · £17,520 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Low energy lighting£20£45.3 yrs+0.1 pts
Band A condensing boiler£1,500 – £3,500£5346.9 yrs+1.5 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£6750+ yrs+1.8 pts
Solid wall insulation£5,500 – £14,500£9450+ yrs+2.6 pts · reaches D
Double glazing(optional, beyond D)£2,500 – £6,500£3150+ yrs+0.9 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels(optional, beyond D)£11,000 – £20,000£8050+ yrs+2.2 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

£1,905
per year at grade E
£1,575
per year at grade D

The full plan saves £218 a year — a 1.2% annual return on £17,520.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2011, states £1,170 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

12 December 2011£314,750
30 November 2007£335,000
1 December 1999£148,995
13 April 1995£71,000

Estimated today: £597,746 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Rye Street: 521 sales since 1995 · £354,712 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Avanti Meadows Primary SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
All Saints Church of England Primary School and Nursery, Bishop's StortfordPrimary0.7 mi
Northgate Primary SchoolPrimary0.8 mi
Avanti Grange Secondary SchoolSecondary0.6 miNot in the KS4 performance tables
Hockerill Anglo-European CollegeSecondary0.8 miProgress 8 +0.38 · above average (2023/24)
Birchwood High SchoolSecondary0.9 miProgress 8 -0.08 · 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.

18.5
crimes a month
203
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 39% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01035590, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Rye Street

How this home sits against its street.

187
graded homes
62.7
average score
D
most common grade
-12.7
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.