8 Morris Street, Birtley, Chester Le Street DH3 1DU

Mid-Terrace flat · Built 1900-1929 · 75 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DC for £4,810 · £4,810 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Low energy lighting£10£51.9 yrs+0.1 pts
Heating controls£350 – £450£439.2 yrs+1.2 pts
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£8911.2 yrs+2.5 pts
Floor insulation£800 – £6,000£11928.5 yrs+3.4 pts · reaches C
Band A condensing boiler(optional, beyond C)£2,200 – £3,000£7335.5 yrs+2.1 pts
Solid wall insulation(optional, beyond C)£4,000 – £14,000£12950+ yrs+3.7 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

£1,250
per year at grade D
£791
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £257 a year — a 5.3% annual return on £4,810.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2018, states £784 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

No sale recorded for this address since 1995.

Morris Street: 63 sales since 1995 · £67,814 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
St Joseph's Catholic Junior School, BirtleyPrimary0.2 mi
St Joseph's Catholic Infant School, BirtleyPrimary0.2 mi
Ravensworth Terrace Primary SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Lord Lawson of Beamish AcademySecondary0.3 miProgress 8 -0.28 · below average (2023/24)
Oxclose Community AcademySecondary1.3 miProgress 8 -0.37 · below average (2023/24)
Washington AcademySecondary2.4 miProgress 8 -0.99 · well 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.

18.8
crimes a month
207
in the last 12 months
Anti-social behaviour
most common · 27% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01008175, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Morris Street

How this home sits against its street.

45
graded homes
64.5
average score
D
most common grade
-0.5
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.