2 South View, Bowes, Barnard Castle DL12 9LQ

Mid-Terrace house · Built before 1900 · 82 m² · Boiler and radiators, LPG

Upgrade Plan

FE for £3,365 · £3,365 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Cavity wall insulation£100 – £300£842.4 yrs+3.4 pts
Low energy lighting£15£53.0 yrs+0.2 pts
Heating controls£350 – £450£419.7 yrs+1.7 pts
Wind turbine£1,500 – £4,000£9429.4 yrs+3.8 pts · reaches E
Solar water heating(optional, beyond E)£4,000 – £6,000£8850+ yrs+3.6 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels(optional, beyond E)£11,000 – £20,000£10450+ yrs+4.3 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

£1,498
per year at grade F
£1,082
per year at grade E

The full plan saves £224 a year — a 6.7% annual return on £3,365.

Energy costs as modelled on the certificate, not a bill. This fuel has too few recent certificates to restate at today's prices.

Sold prices

8 September 2000£55,000
29 September 1995£33,350

Estimated today: £181,216 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

South View: 15 sales since 1995

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Bowes Hutchinson's CofE (Aided) SchoolPrimaryunder 0.1 mi
Cotherstone Primary SchoolPrimary3.9 mi
St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Barnard CastlePrimary4.2 mi
Teesdale School and Sixth FormSecondary4.7 miProgress 8 +0.27 · above 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.

7.2
crimes a month
65
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 32% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01020863, 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.