2 The Crescent, Pitstone, Leighton Buzzard LU7 9AW

Semi-Detached house · Built 1950-1966 · 95 m² · Owner-occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DB for £18,500 · £9,250 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£1427.0 yrs+6.4 pts
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£1069.4 yrs+4.8 pts · reaches C
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£11045.3 yrs+4.9 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£9,000 – £14,000£13250+ yrs+5.9 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

£1,505
per year at grade D
£1,014
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £491 a year — a 2.7% annual return on £18,500.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2013, states £920 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

10 March 2014£249,500

Estimated today: £418,465 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

The Crescent: 24 sales since 1995 · £363,688 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Brookmead SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
Marsworth Church of England Infant SchoolPrimary1.1 mi
Cheddington Combined SchoolPrimary1.1 mi
Tring SchoolSecondary2.4 miProgress 8 +0.24 · above average (2023/24)
Cedars Upper SchoolSecondary5.3 miProgress 8 -0.11 · average (2023/24)
The Cottesloe SchoolSecondary5.4 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.

8.9
crimes a month
89
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 48% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01017701, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

The Crescent

How this home sits against its street.

18
graded homes
62.9
average score
D
most common grade
-2.9
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.