3 Greenford Close, Orwell, Royston SG8 5QA

Detached house · Built 1996-2002 · 177 m² · Boiler and radiators, oil

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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
Solar water heating£5,000typical
Solar photovoltaic panels£4,500 – £9,000typical
Wind turbine£2,750 – £20,000typical

Grants verified 20 August 2026. Costs are the register’s indicative ranges, except where marked typical, which this certificate did not price and which are taken instead from comparable homes of the same type.

Running costs

£1,567
per year at grade C

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2010, states £1,071 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

1 May 2012£440,000
26 April 2002£300,000

Estimated today: £731,419 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Greenford Close: 16 sales since 1995 · £715,000 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Petersfield CofE Aided Primary SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Barrington CofE VC Primary SchoolPrimary2.2 mi
Meldreth Primary SchoolPrimary2.7 mi
Melbourn Village CollegeSecondary3.3 miProgress 8 -0.48 · below average (2023/24)
Comberton Village CollegeSecondary3.8 miProgress 8 +0.42 · above average (2023/24)
Bassingbourn Village CollegeSecondary4.3 miProgress 8 -0.15 · 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.

13.1
crimes a month
131
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 34% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01018275, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Greenford Close

How this home sits against its street.

9
graded homes
62.7
average score
D
most common grade
+7.3
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.