38 Thrales Close, Luton LU3 3RS

End-Terrace house · Built 1967-1975 · 95 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

CB for £6,000 · £6,000 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Solar photovoltaic panels£5,500 – £500£2750+ yrs+6.0 pts
Solar water heating£6,000 – £0£2350+ 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

£1,066
per year at grade C
£1,016
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £50 a year — a 0.8% annual return on £6,000.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2019, states £675 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

14 January 2022£252,500
1 March 2004£105,000
3 September 2002£84,995

Estimated today: £271,371 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Thrales Close: 74 sales since 1995 · £226,444 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Waulud Primary SchoolPrimaryunder 0.1 mi
Whitefield Primary AcademyPrimary0.4 mi
Parklea Primary SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Lea Manor High SchoolSecondary0.4 miProgress 8 -0.98 · well below average (2023/24)
Lealands High SchoolSecondary0.7 miProgress 8 -0.04 · average (2023/24)
Challney High School for GirlsSecondary1.2 miProgress 8 +0.74 · well 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.

17.8
crimes a month
196
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 52% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01015771, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Thrales Close

How this home sits against its street.

66
graded homes
68
average score
C
most common grade
+5.0
this home vs street
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