8 Spring Meadows, Houghton Le Spring DH5 9PD

Detached house · Built 2012 onwards · 229 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

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MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Solar photovoltaic panels£8,000 – £0£0+5.0 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

£1,607
per year at grade C

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2015, states £1,125 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

12 July 2018£725,000
23 December 2013£120,000

Estimated today: £952,173 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Spring Meadows: 16 sales since 1995 · £654,548 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, HoughtonPrimary0.3 mi
East Rainton Primary SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
Eppleton Academy Primary SchoolPrimary0.8 mi
KepierSecondary0.8 miProgress 8 -0.29 · below average (2023/24)
Hetton AcademySecondary0.9 miProgress 8 +0.18 · average (2023/24)
Farringdon Community AcademySecondary3.3 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.

Spring Meadows

How this home sits against its street.

11
graded homes
82.9
average score
B
most common grade
-2.9
this home vs street
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