8 Barley Close, Houghton Le Spring DH4 5AE

Detached house · 2018 · 91 m² · Unknown · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

BA for £11,500 · £11,500 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£3050+ yrs+5.0 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£5,000 – £8,000£3550+ yrs+6.0 pts · reaches A

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

£651
per year at grade B
£586
per year at grade A

The full plan saves £65 a year — a 0.6% annual return on £11,500.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2018, states £408 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

6 December 2022£240,000
25 May 2018£187,000

Estimated today: £256,494 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Barley Close: 35 sales since 1995 · £216,314 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Newbottle Primary AcademyPrimary0.4 mi
Burnside Academy InspiresPrimary0.6 mi
Dubmire PrimaryPrimary0.9 mi
KepierSecondary0.9 miProgress 8 -0.29 · below average (2023/24)
Hetton AcademySecondary2.6 miProgress 8 +0.18 · average (2023/24)
Farringdon Community AcademySecondary2.6 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.

7.2
crimes a month
65
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 40% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01008751, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Barley Close

How this home sits against its street.

26
graded homes
83.2
average score
B
most common grade
-0.2
this home vs street
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