1 Barrells Down Road, Bishop's Stortford CM23 2ST

Detached house · Built before 1900 · 177 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DC for £23,500 · £23,500 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£18823.9 yrs+3.7 pts
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£20424.6 yrs+4.0 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£15831.7 yrs+3.1 pts
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£22040.9 yrs+4.3 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

£3,304
per year at grade D
£2,534
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £770 a year — a 3.3% annual return on £23,500.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2023, states £4,264 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

7 September 2023£1,100,000
20 December 1996£115,500

Estimated today: £1,156,100 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Barrells Down Road: 179 sales since 1995 · £474,375 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Northgate Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
St Michael's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Windhill21Primary0.5 mi
St Mary's Catholic SchoolSecondary0.4 miProgress 8 +0.43 · above average (2023/24)
Avanti Grange Secondary SchoolSecondary0.7 miNot in the KS4 performance tables
Hockerill Anglo-European CollegeSecondary0.7 miProgress 8 +0.38 · 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.

21.2
crimes a month
233
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 42% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01023449, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Barrells Down Road

How this home sits against its street.

69
graded homes
63.2
average score
D
most common grade
-6.2
this home vs street
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