5 Grove Road, Leighton Buzzard LU7 1SF

Detached bungalow · Built 1950-1966 · 87 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DC for £3,100 · £3,100 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£1188.5 yrs+4.9 pts
Room-in-roof insulation£1,500 – £2,700£16312.9 yrs+6.8 pts · reaches C
Solar photovoltaic panels(optional, beyond C)£3,500 – £5,500£10941.3 yrs+4.5 pts
Solar water heating(optional, beyond C)£4,000 – £6,000£9150+ yrs+3.8 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

£1,779
per year at grade D
£1,298
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £280 a year — a 9.0% annual return on £3,100.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2023, states £2,438 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

15 February 2017£290,000
14 July 2011£245,000

Estimated today: £360,218 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Grove Road: 97 sales since 1995 · £446,470 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Pulford CofE VA Lower SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
The Mary Bassett Lower SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Clipstone Brook Lower SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Cedars Upper SchoolSecondary0.8 miProgress 8 -0.11 · average (2023/24)
Vandyke Upper SchoolSecondary1.3 miProgress 8 +0.01 · average (2023/24)
The Cottesloe SchoolSecondary2.9 miProgress 8 +0.11 · 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.

58.7
crimes a month
646
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 26% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01017555, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Grove Road

How this home sits against its street.

41
graded homes
55
average score
E
most common grade
+3.0
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.