40 North Road, Darlington DL1 2EQ

Mid-Terrace flat · Built 1900-1929 · 43 m² · Rented (Social) · Electric storage heaters

Upgrade Plan

EC for £10,740 · £5,370 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Hot water cylinder insulation£30£1210.2 yrs+3.5 pts · reaches D
Low energy lighting£10£61.6 yrs+0.2 pts
High-retention storage heaters£1,200 – £200£2782.5 yrs+8.0 pts
Floor insulation£6,000 – £0£14121.3 yrs+4.0 pts
Solid wall insulation£14,000 – £0£15245.9 yrs+4.4 pts · reaches C

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

£1,581
per year at grade E
£883
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £698 a year — a 6.5% annual return on £10,740.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2017, states £904 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

28 November 1995£16,000

Estimated today: £46,584 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

North Road: 436 sales since 1995 · £126,232 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Northwood Primary SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Corporation Road Community Primary SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Gurney Pease AcademyPrimary0.5 mi
Longfield AcademySecondary0.8 miProgress 8 -0.47 · below average (2023/24)
St Aidan's Church of England AcademySecondary0.9 miProgress 8 -0.96 · well below average (2023/24)
Haughton AcademySecondary1.0 miProgress 8 -0.57 · well 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.

57
crimes a month
627
in the last 12 months
Anti-social behaviour
most common · 27% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01012349, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

North Road

How this home sits against its street.

255
graded homes
59.3
average score
D
most common grade
-6.3
this home vs street
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