142 Barrells Down Road, Bishop's Stortford CM23 2SZ

Detached house · Built 1930-1949 · 132 m² · Owner-Occupied · No system present: electric heaters assumed

Upgrade Plan

GC for £16,830 · £4,208 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Low energy lighting£30£340.9 yrs+0.5 pts
Floor insulation£1,200 – £200£7780.9 yrs+12.1 pts
High-retention storage heaters£3,600 – £600£1,5321.4 yrs+23.8 pts · reaches F
Solar water heating£6,000 – £0£6035.0 yrs+9.4 pts · reaches E
Solar photovoltaic panels£8,000 – £0£7205.6 yrs+11.2 pts · reaches D
Solid wall insulation£14,000 – £0£8418.3 yrs+13.1 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

£5,779
per year at grade G
£1,271
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £4,508 a year — a 26.8% annual return on £16,830.

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

27 March 2015£651,000

Estimated today: £948,961 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 SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Avanti Meadows Primary SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
St Michael's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary0.7 mi
Avanti Grange Secondary SchoolSecondary0.5 miNot in the KS4 performance tables
St Mary's Catholic SchoolSecondary0.6 miProgress 8 +0.43 · above average (2023/24)
Hockerill Anglo-European CollegeSecondary0.8 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
-62.2
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.