1 Tanbark, Houghton Le Spring DH4 7TE

Detached house · Built 1996-2002 · 165 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

CB for £4,500 · £4,500 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£0+7.0 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

£1,534
per year at grade C

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2022, states £903 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

19 December 2005£249,950
19 June 2002£169,950
21 June 2000£129,000

Estimated today: £348,307 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Tanbark: 17 sales since 1995 · £300,000 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, PenshawPrimary0.3 mi
Shiney Row Primary SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Barnwell AcademyPrimary0.6 mi
St Robert of Newminster Catholic School and Sixth Form College, WashingtonSecondary1.6 miProgress 8 +0.13 · average (2023/24)
Biddick AcademySecondary1.8 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.

5.7
crimes a month
57
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 35% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01008795, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Tanbark

How this home sits against its street.

3
graded homes
75
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.