38 Rochester Drive, Bexley DA5 1PY

Semi-Detached house · Built 1950-1966 · 90 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DC for £11,435 · £11,435 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Low energy lighting£35£56.8 yrs+0.2 pts
Heating controls£350 – £450£439.4 yrs+2.0 pts
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£8811.4 yrs+4.1 pts
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£11742.6 yrs+5.5 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£9150+ yrs+4.2 pts · reaches C
Solar photovoltaic panels(optional, beyond C)£5,000 – £8,000£10950+ yrs+5.0 pts
Double glazing(optional, beyond C)£3,300 – £6,500£4250+ yrs+2.0 pts

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

£1,589
per year at grade D
£1,094
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £344 a year — a 3.0% annual return on £11,435.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2017, states £1,057 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

20 December 2017£380,500
28 February 2001£135,000
13 February 1998£99,950

Estimated today: £471,231 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Rochester Drive: 122 sales since 1995 · £426,933 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Gravel Hill Primary SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Pelham Primary SchoolPrimary0.7 mi
Upton Primary SchoolPrimary0.8 mi
Beths Grammar SchoolSecondary0.2 miProgress 8 +0.53 · well above average (2023/24)
St Columba's Catholic Boys' SchoolSecondary0.3 miProgress 8 +0.04 · average (2023/24)
St Catherine's Catholic SchoolSecondary0.4 miProgress 8 +0.75 · 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.

7
crimes a month
56
in the last 12 months
Vehicle crime
most common · 27% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01000364, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Rochester Drive

How this home sits against its street.

68
graded homes
62.1
average score
D
most common grade
-6.1
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.