28 Leafield Road, Darlington DL1 5DF

Mid-Terrace house · Built 1900-1929 · 69 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DB for £17,500 · £8,750 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£4024.8 yrs+3.1 pts · reaches C
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£5450+ yrs+4.2 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£4250+ yrs+3.3 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£5,000 – £8,000£5050+ yrs+3.9 pts · reaches B
Solid wall insulation(optional, beyond B)£4,000 – £14,000£5850+ yrs+4.5 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

£1,088
per year at grade D
£844
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £186 a year — a 1.1% annual return on £17,500.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2018, states £682 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

27 May 2005£55,000
6 July 2001£20,000

Estimated today: £78,434 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Leafield Road: 93 sales since 1995 · £92,501 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Polam Hall SchoolAll-through0.3 miProgress 8 -0.05 · average (2023/24)
St Augustine's Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Skerne Park AcademyPrimary0.4 mi
St Aidan's Church of England AcademySecondary1.0 miProgress 8 -0.96 · well below average (2023/24)
Carmel CollegeSecondary1.4 miProgress 8 +0.38 · above average (2023/24)
Hummersknott AcademySecondary1.7 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.

25.5
crimes a month
281
in the last 12 months
Anti-social behaviour
most common · 33% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01012356, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Leafield Road

How this home sits against its street.

40
graded homes
59.5
average score
D
most common grade
+8.5
this home vs street
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