55 Beech Road, Luton LU1 1DW

Mid-Terrace house · Built 1900-1929 · 83 m² · Owner-occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

EB for £30,620 · £10,207 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Draughtproofing£80 – £120£1140.9 yrs+4.6 pts
Low energy lighting£20£63.4 yrs+0.2 pts
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£1357.4 yrs+5.5 pts · reaches D
Heating controls£350 – £450£498.1 yrs+2.0 pts
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£1019.9 yrs+4.1 pts
Band A condensing boiler£2,200 – £3,000£8331.4 yrs+3.4 pts · reaches C
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£10547.8 yrs+4.2 pts
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£14650+ yrs+5.9 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£9,000 – £14,000£12550+ yrs+5.1 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

£1,726
per year at grade E
£864
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £862 a year — a 2.8% annual return on £30,620.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2013, states £1,086 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

29 September 2000£55,000
24 April 1998£11,300

Estimated today: £230,143 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Beech Road: 131 sales since 1995 · £184,094 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Beech Hill Community Primary SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Dallow Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Maidenhall Primary SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
Denbigh High SchoolSecondary0.5 miProgress 8 +0.80 · well above average (2023/24)
The Stockwood Park AcademySecondary1.0 miProgress 8 -0.21 · below average (2023/24)
Chiltern AcademySecondary1.5 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.

12.1
crimes a month
133
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 40% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01015727, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Beech Road

How this home sits against its street.

62
graded homes
56.7
average score
D
most common grade
-6.7
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.