5 Brook Cottages, Ivinghoe Aston, Leighton Buzzard LU7 9DG

Semi-Detached house · Built 1900-1929 · 62 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, oil

Upgrade Plan

FB for £30,023 · £7,506 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Hot water cylinder insulation£15 – £30£1390.2 yrs+6.7 pts
High-performance doors£1,000 – £0£1303.8 yrs+6.3 pts · reaches E
Heating controls£350 – £450£596.7 yrs+2.8 pts
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£1228.2 yrs+5.8 pts
Band A condensing boiler£2,200 – £3,000£10026.0 yrs+4.8 pts
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£16330.7 yrs+7.8 pts · reaches D
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£12639.6 yrs+6.1 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£5,000 – £8,000£15143.1 yrs+7.2 pts · reaches C
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£17650+ yrs+8.5 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

£1,861
per year at grade F
£694
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £1,167 a year — a 3.9% annual return on £30,023.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2015, states £1,406 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

23 June 2021£315,000
11 April 2007£220,000
30 April 2002£132,000

Estimated today: £368,950 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Edlesborough Primary AcademyPrimary1.6 mi
Brookmead SchoolPrimary1.6 mi
Cheddington Combined SchoolPrimary1.9 mi
Cedars Upper SchoolSecondary4.1 miProgress 8 -0.11 · average (2023/24)
Queensbury AcademySecondary4.2 miProgress 8 -0.56 · well below average (2023/24)
Tring SchoolSecondary4.4 miProgress 8 +0.24 · 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.

6
crimes a month
48
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 50% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01017658, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.