Banks Farm, Alston CA9 3ND

Detached house · Built 2003-2006 · 101 m² · Boiler and radiators, dual fuel (mineral and wood)

Upgrade Plan

ED for £23,739 · £23,739 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Hot water cylinder insulation£23 – £300typical£334.8 yrs+1.6 pts
Heating controls£400typical£1428.1 yrs+0.7 pts
Low energy lighting£30 – £75typical£230.8 yrs+0.1 pts
Solar water heating£5,000typical£3050+ yrs+1.4 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£4,500 – £9,000typical£3650+ yrs+1.7 pts
Wind turbine£2,750 – £20,000typical£3250+ yrs+1.5 pts · reaches D

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. 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

£1,041
per year at grade E
£893
per year at grade D

The full plan saves £148 a year — a 0.6% annual return on £23,739.

Energy costs as modelled on the certificate, not a bill. This fuel has too few recent certificates to restate at today's prices.

Sold prices

30 June 2006£315,000

Estimated today: £479,804 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Alston Primary SchoolPrimary0.8 mi
Nenthead Primary SchoolPrimary4.0 mi
Whitfield CofE Primary SchoolPrimary7.6 mi
Samuel King's SchoolSecondary0.8 miProgress 8 -0.24 · 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.

11.4
crimes a month
125
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 56% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01019305, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.