12 Upper Tail, Watford WD19 5DF

End-Terrace house · Built 1967-1975 · 93 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DB for £17,000 · £8,500 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£6,000 – £0£5250+ yrs+4.0 pts · reaches C
Solar water heating£6,000 – £0£4050+ yrs+3.1 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£8,000 – £0£4850+ yrs+3.7 pts
Solid wall insulation£14,000 – £0£5650+ yrs+4.3 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

£1,311
per year at grade D
£1,114
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £197 a year — a 1.2% annual return on £17,000.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2018, states £832 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

23 November 2018£460,000
22 March 2002£185,000

Estimated today: £516,860 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Upper Tail: 31 sales since 1995 · £579,000 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
St Meryl SchoolPrimary0.1 mi
Woodhall Primary SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Oxhey Wood Primary SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
The Grange AcademySecondary1.4 miProgress 8 -0.29 · below average (2023/24)
Hatch End High SchoolSecondary1.6 miProgress 8 -0.03 · average (2023/24)
Bentley Wood High SchoolSecondary1.9 miProgress 8 +0.90 · well 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.

4.1
crimes a month
37
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 54% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01023810, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Upper Tail

How this home sits against its street.

17
graded homes
64.1
average score
D
most common grade
+1.9
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.