4 Wordsworth Road, Darlington DL1 5BD

Semi-Detached house · Built 1950-1966 · 74 m² · Owner-occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DC for £17,510 · £17,510 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Low energy lighting£10£33.4 yrs+0.2 pts
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£6615.1 yrs+5.5 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£5150+ yrs+4.2 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£9,000 – £14,000£6150+ yrs+5.1 pts · reaches C
Double glazing(optional, beyond C)£3,300 – £6,500£2450+ yrs+2.0 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

£1,448
per year at grade D
£1,242
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £182 a year — a 1.0% annual return on £17,510.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2013, states £934 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

21 December 2021£84,500
12 April 2010£75,000

Estimated today: £97,486 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Wordsworth Road: 1 sales since 1995

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Skerne Park AcademyPrimaryunder 0.1 mi
Polam Hall SchoolAll-through0.6 miProgress 8 -0.05 · average (2023/24)
The Rydal AcademyPrimary0.6 mi
St Aidan's Church of England AcademySecondary1.4 miProgress 8 -0.96 · well below average (2023/24)
Carmel CollegeSecondary1.6 miProgress 8 +0.38 · above average (2023/24)
Hummersknott AcademySecondary1.8 miProgress 8 -0.48 · 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.

15.7
crimes a month
173
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 36% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01012359, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.