6 Bowes Lea, Houghton Le Spring DH4 4PP

Semi-Detached house · 1967-1975 · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

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This certificate lists these measures but records the same score with and without them, so there is no saving or rating gain to attribute to any one of them. That usually means the assessment was incomplete — here the assessor recorded no heating system at all. The costs below are real; a fresh assessment would be the way to find the gain.

MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Solar water heating£5,000typical
Solar photovoltaic panels£4,500 – £9,000typical

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.

Running costs

£621
per year at grade C

Energy costs as modelled on the certificate, not a bill. This fuel has too few recent certificates to restate at today's prices.

Sold prices

4 July 2014£138,500
3 August 2001£74,950
12 January 1996£51,950

Estimated today: £201,336 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Bowes Lea: 26 sales since 1995 · £146,595 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Shiney Row Primary SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
Bournmoor Primary SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Primary School, PenshawPrimary0.6 mi
KepierSecondary1.8 miProgress 8 -0.29 · below average (2023/24)
St Robert of Newminster Catholic School and Sixth Form College, WashingtonSecondary2.0 miProgress 8 +0.13 · average (2023/24)
Biddick AcademySecondary2.1 miProgress 8 -0.25 · 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.

4.5
crimes a month
45
in the last 12 months
Anti-social behaviour
most common · 36% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01034518, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Bowes Lea

How this home sits against its street.

18
graded homes
63.2
average score
D
most common grade
+7.8
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.