38 Ames Close, Luton LU3 4AS

Detached house · Built 1983-1990 · 115 m² · Owner-occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DB for £20,400 · £10,200 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Loft insulation£100 – £350£693.3 yrs+2.6 pts
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£1456.9 yrs+5.5 pts · reaches C
Low energy lighting£75£611.8 yrs+0.2 pts
Band A condensing boiler£2,200 – £3,000£8929.2 yrs+3.4 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£11244.5 yrs+4.2 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£9,000 – £14,000£13450+ 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

£1,603
per year at grade D
£1,047
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £556 a year — a 2.7% annual return on £20,400.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2014, states £1,077 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

4 December 2003£247,000

Estimated today: £548,286 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Ames Close: 46 sales since 1995 · £364,928 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Bramingham Primary SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Whitefield Primary AcademyPrimary0.6 mi
Waulud Primary SchoolPrimary0.7 mi
Lea Manor High SchoolSecondary0.3 miProgress 8 -0.98 · well below average (2023/24)
Cardinal Newman Catholic School A Specialist Science CollegeSecondary0.9 miProgress 8 +0.38 · above average (2023/24)
Lealands High SchoolSecondary1.1 miProgress 8 -0.04 · 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.

5.7
crimes a month
40
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 48% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01015709, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Ames Close

How this home sits against its street.

21
graded homes
63.8
average score
D
most common grade
-1.8
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.