Apartment 7, 42, Bancroft, Hitchin SG5 1LA

End-Terrace flat · Built 2007-2011 · 100 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

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This certificate lists these measures but records the same score with and without them, so there is no saving or rating gain to attribute to any one of them. That usually means the assessment was incomplete — here the assessor recorded no heating system at all. The costs below are real; a fresh assessment would be the way to find the gain.

MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Low energy lighting£65

Grants verified 20 August 2026. Costs are the register’s indicative ranges.

Running costs

£703
per year at grade B
£674
per year at grade B

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2017, states £474 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

10 August 2023£510,000
23 January 2018£453,000
17 September 2009£255,000

Estimated today: £525,486 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Bancroft: 230 sales since 1995 · £419,227 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Wilshere-Dacre Junior AcademyPrimary0.2 mi
Highbury Infant School and NurseryPrimary0.4 mi
Samuel Lucas Junior Mixed and Infant SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Hitchin Boys' SchoolSecondaryunder 0.1 miProgress 8 +0.57 · well above average (2023/24)
Hitchin Girls' SchoolSecondary0.4 miProgress 8 +0.62 · well above average (2023/24)
The Priory SchoolSecondary0.8 miProgress 8 -0.05 · 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.

51.2
crimes a month
563
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 31% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01023616, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Bancroft

How this home sits against its street.

111
graded homes
71.4
average score
C
most common grade
+10.6
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.