85 Stanbridge Road, Leighton Buzzard LU7 4QA

Detached bungalow · Built 1930-1949 · 73 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

EC for £13,700 · £6,850 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£1,200 – £200£907.8 yrs+5.6 pts · reaches D
Solar photovoltaic panels£5,500 – £500£8336.2 yrs+5.1 pts
Solar water heating£6,000 – £0£7043.1 yrs+4.3 pts
Solid wall insulation£14,000 – £0£9750+ yrs+6.0 pts · reaches C

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

£1,607
per year at grade E
£1,268
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £339 a year — a 2.5% annual return on £13,700.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2020, states £1,029 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

23 October 2020£339,995
10 March 2014£247,000
19 July 2001£105,000

Estimated today: £398,213 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Stanbridge Road: 470 sales since 1995 · £320,343 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Leedon Lower SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Clipstone Brook Lower SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
The Rushmere Park AcademyPrimary0.7 mi
Vandyke Upper SchoolSecondary1.1 miProgress 8 +0.01 · average (2023/24)
Cedars Upper SchoolSecondary1.2 miProgress 8 -0.11 · average (2023/24)
The Cottesloe SchoolSecondary3.4 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.

5
crimes a month
35
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 34% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01017576, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Stanbridge Road

How this home sits against its street.

172
graded homes
65.8
average score
C
most common grade
-12.8
this home vs street
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