1a Rock Close, Leighton Buzzard LU7 2YJ

Detached house · Built 1983-1990 · 147 m² · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DC for £9,403 · £9,403 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Low energy lighting£30 – £75typical£143.8 yrs+0.3 pts
Band A condensing boiler£2,600typical£19613.3 yrs+4.3 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£4,500 – £9,000typical£29522.9 yrs+6.4 pts · reaches C

Grants verified 20 August 2026. Costs are the register’s indicative ranges, except where marked typical, which this certificate did not price and which are taken instead from comparable homes of the same type. 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

£1,900
per year at grade D
£1,395
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £505 a year — a 5.4% annual return on £9,403.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2009, states £1,147 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

30 April 2010£415,000
22 March 2001£250,000
29 February 1996£145,000

Estimated today: £811,029 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Rock Close: 15 sales since 1995 · £687,748 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Linslade Lower SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Southcott Lower SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Greenleas SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Cedars Upper SchoolSecondary0.7 miProgress 8 -0.11 · average (2023/24)
Vandyke Upper SchoolSecondary1.9 miProgress 8 +0.01 · average (2023/24)
The Cottesloe SchoolSecondary2.2 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.

4.2
crimes a month
25
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 32% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01017613, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Rock Close

How this home sits against its street.

3
graded homes
64.7
average score
D
most common grade
-2.7
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.