2 Rectory Lane, Houghton Conquest, Bedford MK45 3LD

End-Terrace house · Built before 1900 · 64 m² · Boiler and radiators, LPG

Upgrade Plan

EB for £33,675 · £11,225 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Low energy lighting£25£38.3 yrs+0.3 pts
High-performance doors£1,000 – £0£559.1 yrs+4.8 pts
Flue gas heat recovery£900£6713.4 yrs+5.8 pts
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£6914.5 yrs+5.9 pts · reaches D
Heating controls£350 – £450£2515.9 yrs+2.2 pts
Wind turbine£1,500 – £4,000£5748.1 yrs+4.9 pts
Band A condensing boiler£2,200 – £3,000£4250+ yrs+3.7 pts · reaches C
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£5450+ yrs+4.6 pts
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£7550+ yrs+6.4 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£9,000 – £14,000£6450+ yrs+5.5 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

£1,060
per year at grade E
£549
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £511 a year — a 1.5% annual return on £33,675.

Energy costs as modelled on the certificate, not a bill. This fuel has too few recent certificates to restate at today's prices.

Sold prices

26 July 2012£150,000
16 July 2003£134,995

Estimated today: £281,113 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Rectory Lane: 56 sales since 1995 · £609,564 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Houghton Conquest Lower SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Willow Grove Primary SchoolPrimary1.8 mi
Wilstead Primary SchoolPrimary1.9 mi
Wixams AcademySecondary2.0 miProgress 8 +0.23 · above average (2023/24)
Redborne Upper School and Community CollegeSecondary3.0 miProgress 8 +0.08 · average (2023/24)
Wootton AcademySecondary3.6 miProgress 8 -0.17 · 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.

7.4
crimes a month
81
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 49% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01033817, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Rectory Lane

How this home sits against its street.

27
graded homes
57.9
average score
D
most common grade
-15.9
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.