5 Sutton Close, Houghton Le Spring DH4 7NB

Mid-Terrace house · Built 1967-1975 · 72 m² · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

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MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Band A condensing boiler(optional, beyond D)£1,500 – £3,500£1550+ yrs+0.5 pts
Solar water heating(optional, beyond D)£4,000 – £6,000£1950+ yrs+0.7 pts
Solid wall insulation(optional, beyond D)£5,500 – £14,500£2750+ yrs+1.0 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels(optional, beyond D)£11,000 – £20,000£2350+ yrs+0.8 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

£1,180
per year at grade D
£1,096
per year at grade D

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2012, states £716 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

20 March 2020£107,500
28 August 2009£106,000
28 August 2009£106,000
27 February 1998£42,500

Estimated today: £144,495 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Sutton Close: 28 sales since 1995 · £107,900 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Primary School, PenshawPrimary0.1 mi
Barnwell AcademyPrimary0.2 mi
Shiney Row Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
St Robert of Newminster Catholic School and Sixth Form College, WashingtonSecondary1.6 miProgress 8 +0.13 · average (2023/24)
Biddick AcademySecondary1.7 miProgress 8 -0.25 · below average (2023/24)
KepierSecondary2.1 miProgress 8 -0.29 · 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.

10.3
crimes a month
113
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 34% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01008801, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Sutton Close

How this home sits against its street.

15
graded homes
69.1
average score
C
most common grade
-6.1
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.