188 Rushby Place, Letchworth Garden City SG6 1SH

Mid-Terrace house · Built 1900-1929 · 73 m² · Owner-Occupied · Room heaters, electric

Upgrade Plan

GB for £28,755 · £5,751 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Loft insulation£100 – £350£1791.3 yrs+4.2 pts · reaches F
Low energy lighting£30£161.8 yrs+0.4 pts
Change of heating system£3,000 – £7,000£1,0734.7 yrs+25.4 pts · reaches E
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£34812.9 yrs+8.2 pts · reaches D
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£37613.3 yrs+8.9 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£29217.1 yrs+6.9 pts · reaches C
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£40622.1 yrs+9.6 pts · reaches B
Double glazing(optional, beyond B)£3,300 – £6,500£13636.0 yrs+3.2 pts

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

£3,601
per year at grade G
£775
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £2,690 a year — a 9.4% annual return on £28,755.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2020, states £2,308 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

23 November 2020£261,000

Estimated today: £301,712 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Rushby Place: 11 sales since 1995 · £332,250 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Pixmore Junior SchoolPrimaryunder 0.1 mi
Hillshott Infant School and NurseryPrimary0.2 mi
Garden City AcademyPrimary0.5 mi
The Highfield SchoolSecondary1.0 miAttainment 8 41.7 · no Progress 8 published
Fearnhill SchoolSecondary1.2 miProgress 8 -0.14 · average (2023/24)
The Knights Templar SchoolSecondary1.5 miProgress 8 -0.27 · below 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.

14.2
crimes a month
156
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 31% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01023630, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Rushby Place

How this home sits against its street.

15
graded homes
61.1
average score
D
most common grade
-42.1
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.