Willow Corner, Bendish, Hitchin SG4 8JH

Detached house · Built before 1900 · 197 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, oil

Upgrade Plan

EC for £16,870 · £8,435 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Loft insulation£100 – £350£2950.8 yrs+4.9 pts
Low energy lighting£45£271.7 yrs+0.4 pts
Band A condensing boiler£2,200 – £3,000£3806.8 yrs+6.3 pts
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£6198.1 yrs+10.3 pts · reaches D
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£66913.5 yrs+11.1 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

£3,831
per year at grade E
£1,841
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £1,990 a year — a 11.8% annual return on £16,870.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2023, states £4,491 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

No sale recorded for this address since 1995.

Chapel Row: 1 sales since 1995 · £470,000 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Breachwood Green Junior Mixed and Infant SchoolPrimary0.8 mi
St Paul's Walden Primary SchoolPrimary1.1 mi
Preston Primary SchoolPrimary2.1 mi
Queen Elizabeth SchoolSecondary3.2 miProgress 8 -0.34 · below average (2023/24)
Putteridge High SchoolSecondary3.5 miProgress 8 +0.23 · above average (2023/24)
Chiltern AcademySecondary3.9 miProgress 8 +0.38 · 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.

7.5
crimes a month
82
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 39% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01023623, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Chapel Row

How this home sits against its street.

7
graded homes
45.6
average score
E
most common grade
-2.6
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.