3a Corn Mill Drive, Houghton Le Spring DH5 9NP

Semi-Detached bungalow · Built 1991-1995 · 88 m² · Owner-occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DB for £20,100 · £10,050 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£7812.8 yrs+4.8 pts · reaches C
Band A condensing boiler£2,200 – £3,000£4850+ yrs+3.0 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£6150+ yrs+3.7 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£9,000 – £14,000£7250+ yrs+4.5 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

£1,298
per year at grade D
£1,039
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £259 a year — a 1.3% annual return on £20,100.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2013, states £851 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

12 August 2005£192,500
25 May 2001£80,000

Estimated today: £264,902 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Corn Mill Drive: 7 sales since 1995 · £310,000 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
St Michael's Catholic Primary School, HoughtonPrimary0.2 mi
East Rainton Primary SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
Bernard Gilpin Primary SchoolPrimary0.7 mi
KepierSecondary0.7 miProgress 8 -0.29 · below average (2023/24)
Hetton AcademySecondary1.0 miProgress 8 +0.18 · average (2023/24)
Farringdon Community AcademySecondary3.2 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.

8.8
crimes a month
88
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 48% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01008747, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Corn Mill Drive

How this home sits against its street.

4
graded homes
71.5
average score
D
most common grade
-5.5
this home vs street
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