5 The Oval, Houghton Le Spring DH4 5DB

Detached house · Built 1950-1966 · 110 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DC for £16,500 · £16,500 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£5,000 – £10,000£7950+ yrs+3.6 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£8,000 – £10,000£7350+ yrs+3.4 pts · reaches C

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

£1,808
per year at grade D
£1,656
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £152 a year — a 0.9% annual return on £16,500.

Energy costs as modelled on the certificate, not a bill.

Sold prices

No sale recorded for this address since 1995.

The Oval: 1 sales since 1995

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Burnside Academy InspiresPrimary0.4 mi
St Michael's Catholic Primary School, HoughtonPrimary0.6 mi
Bernard Gilpin Primary SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
KepierSecondary0.2 miProgress 8 -0.29 · below average (2023/24)
Hetton AcademySecondary1.8 miProgress 8 +0.18 · average (2023/24)
Farringdon Community AcademySecondary2.9 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.

4.6
crimes a month
32
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 41% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01008749, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.