159 Torquay Crescent, Stevenage SG1 2RL

Mid-Terrace house · Built 1967-1975 · 126 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DB for £9,950 · £4,975 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Heating controls£450£548.3 yrs+1.8 pts
Cavity wall insulation£1,500 – £500£1119.0 yrs+3.7 pts · reaches C
Band A condensing boiler£3,000 – £0£9116.4 yrs+3.0 pts
Solar water heating£6,000 – £0£11526.0 yrs+3.8 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£8,000 – £0£13829.0 yrs+4.6 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

£1,634
per year at grade D
£1,124
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £510 a year — a 5.1% annual return on £9,950.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2017, states £1,082 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

23 February 2018£285,000
28 November 2005£165,000
3 December 1999£89,995
28 April 1999£63,000

Estimated today: £351,303 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Torquay Crescent: 238 sales since 1995 · £266,338 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Woolenwick Junior SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Woolenwick Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Fairlands Primary SchoolPrimary0.7 mi
The Saint John Henry Newman Catholic SchoolSecondary0.6 miProgress 8 +0.72 · well above average (2023/24)
The Thomas Alleyne AcademySecondary0.6 miProgress 8 +0.04 · average (2023/24)
Barclay AcademySecondary0.7 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.

18
crimes a month
180
in the last 12 months
Anti-social behaviour
most common · 22% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01023798, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Torquay Crescent

How this home sits against its street.

160
graded homes
66.7
average score
C
most common grade
+0.3
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.