2 Central Exchange, Chester Le Street DH3 3DX

Detached flat · Built 2003-2006 · 68 m² · Owner-Occupied · Room heaters, electric

Upgrade Plan

DC for £1,500 · £1,500 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
High-retention storage heaters£1,200 – £1,800£7232.1 yrs+19.6 pts · reaches C
Low energy lighting(optional, beyond C)£65£164.0 yrs+0.4 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

£1,622
per year at grade D
£883
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £723 a year — a 48.2% annual return on £1,500.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2015, states £915 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

22 March 2016£129,500
14 October 2005£149,950

Estimated today: £162,158 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Central Exchange: 33 sales since 1995 · £131,545 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Cestria Primary SchoolPrimary0.1 mi
St Cuthbert's Catholic Primary School, Chester-Le-StreetPrimary0.3 mi
Red Rose Primary SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Park View SchoolSecondary0.2 miProgress 8 -0.14 · average (2023/24)
Hermitage AcademySecondary0.7 miProgress 8 +0.12 · average (2023/24)
Lord Lawson of Beamish AcademySecondary2.8 miProgress 8 -0.28 · 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.

49.9
crimes a month
549
in the last 12 months
Shoplifting
most common · 26% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01020593, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Central Exchange

How this home sits against its street.

13
graded homes
67.5
average score
D
most common grade
-9.5
this home vs street
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