55 Cross Road, Birchington CT7 9HW

Detached house · Built 1950-1966 · 117 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DC for £16,500 · £16,500 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£5,000 – £10,000£7650+ yrs+3.6 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£8,000 – £10,000£7050+ yrs+3.4 pts · reaches C

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

£1,895
per year at grade D
£1,749
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £146 a year — a 0.9% annual return on £16,500.

Energy costs as modelled on the certificate, not a bill.

Sold prices

9 January 2009£195,000
6 September 2002£167,500
28 September 2001£110,000
18 September 1998£67,500

Estimated today: £408,267 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Cross Road: 88 sales since 1995 · £332,235 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Birchington Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
St Saviour's Church of England Junior SchoolPrimary0.9 mi
St Crispin's Infant SchoolPrimary1.1 mi
King Ethelbert SchoolSecondary0.4 miProgress 8 -0.43 · below average (2023/24)
Ursuline CollegeSecondary0.6 miProgress 8 -0.19 · average (2023/24)
Hartsdown AcademySecondary2.4 miProgress 8 -0.39 · 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.

6.5
crimes a month
72
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 36% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01024637, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Cross Road

How this home sits against its street.

39
graded homes
61.7
average score
D
most common grade
+1.3
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.