253 Princes Road, Dartford DA1 2PY

Semi-Detached house · Built 1950-1966 · 102 m² · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

EC for £24,975 · £12,488 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Loft insulation£225typical£743.0 yrs+2.0 pts
Heating controls£400typical£577.0 yrs+1.5 pts
Cavity wall insulation£1,000typical£1178.6 yrs+3.1 pts
Band A condensing boiler£2,600typical£9627.1 yrs+2.6 pts · reaches D
Solar water heating£5,000typical£12141.2 yrs+3.3 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£4,500 – £9,000typical£14546.7 yrs+3.9 pts
Solid wall insulation£9,000typical£16950+ yrs+4.6 pts · reaches C

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

£2,020
per year at grade E
£1,241
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £779 a year — a 3.1% annual return on £24,975.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2010, states £1,251 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

2 August 2013£250,000
19 January 2007£250,000

Estimated today: £465,138 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Princes Road: 436 sales since 1995 · £407,610 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
West Hill Primary AcademyPrimary0.5 mi
Wentworth Primary SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
Westgate Primary SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
Dartford Grammar School for GirlsSecondary0.3 miProgress 8 +0.82 · well above average (2023/24)
Dartford Grammar SchoolSecondary0.5 miProgress 8 +1.11 · well above average (2023/24)
Dartford Science & Technology CollegeSecondary0.5 miProgress 8 -0.04 · 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.

7.9
crimes a month
79
in the last 12 months
Shoplifting
most common · 28% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01024145, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Princes Road

How this home sits against its street.

190
graded homes
60.2
average score
D
most common grade
-12.2
this home vs street
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