4 Gilder Close, Luton LU3 4AX

Detached house · Built 1983-1990 · 125 m² · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

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MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Loft insulation(optional, beyond D)£100 – £300£365.5 yrs+0.7 pts
Low energy lighting(optional, beyond D)£40£311.9 yrs+0.1 pts
Heating controls(optional, beyond D)£350 – £450£2814.3 yrs+0.6 pts
Solar water heating(optional, beyond D)£4,000 – £6,000£5950+ yrs+1.2 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels(optional, beyond D)£11,000 – £20,000£7150+ yrs+1.4 pts

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

£1,687
per year at grade D
£1,489
per year at grade D

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2011, states £1,015 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

7 January 2013£270,000
1 February 2000£30,000

Estimated today: £530,545 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Gilder Close: 37 sales since 1995 · £392,450 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Bramingham Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
The Meads Primary SchoolPrimary0.7 mi
Whitefield Primary AcademyPrimary0.7 mi
Lea Manor High SchoolSecondary0.3 miProgress 8 -0.98 · well below average (2023/24)
Cardinal Newman Catholic School A Specialist Science CollegeSecondary0.8 miProgress 8 +0.38 · above average (2023/24)
Icknield High SchoolSecondary1.1 miProgress 8 +0.54 · 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.

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.

Gilder Close

How this home sits against its street.

16
graded homes
68.1
average score
C
most common grade
-4.1
this home vs street
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