8 Aireys Close, Houghton Le Spring DH4 5QA

Semi-Detached house · Built 1976-1982 · 114 m² · Owner-occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

CB for £20,500 · £20,500 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£8012.5 yrs+3.8 pts
Heating controls£350 – £450£2913.7 yrs+1.4 pts
Band A condensing boiler£2,200 – £3,000£4950+ yrs+2.3 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£6250+ yrs+3.0 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£9,000 – £14,000£7450+ yrs+3.5 pts · reaches B

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

£1,391
per year at grade C
£1,096
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £295 a year — a 1.4% annual return on £20,500.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2014, states £964 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

28 February 2015£165,000
22 September 2000£59,350

Estimated today: £239,217 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Aireys Close: 17 sales since 1995 · £178,333 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Burnside Academy InspiresPrimary0.4 mi
Dubmire PrimaryPrimary0.6 mi
St Michael's Catholic Primary School, HoughtonPrimary0.7 mi
KepierSecondary0.4 miProgress 8 -0.29 · below average (2023/24)
Hetton AcademySecondary1.9 miProgress 8 +0.18 · average (2023/24)
Farringdon Community AcademySecondary3.0 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.

Aireys Close

How this home sits against its street.

5
graded homes
69
average score
C
most common grade
+1.0
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.