High Cold Knott Cottage, Crook DL15 9QF

Semi-Detached house · Built before 1900 · 85 m² · Rented (private) · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

EB for £32,290 · £10,763 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Low energy lighting£40£75.7 yrs+0.3 pts
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£1616.2 yrs+6.7 pts · reaches D
Heating controls£350 – £450£596.8 yrs+2.5 pts
Wind turbine£1,500 – £4,000£13320.6 yrs+5.6 pts
Band A condensing boiler£2,200 – £3,000£9926.3 yrs+4.1 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£12540.0 yrs+5.2 pts · reaches C
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£17450+ yrs+7.3 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£9,000 – £14,000£14950+ yrs+6.2 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

£1,905
per year at grade E
£998
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £907 a year — a 2.8% annual return on £32,290.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2013, states £1,229 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

23 May 1997£55,000

Estimated today: £198,256 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Hartside Primary AcademyPrimary1.5 mi
Peases West AcademyPrimary1.7 mi
Crook Primary SchoolPrimary1.8 mi
Parkside AcademySecondary4.1 miProgress 8 +0.01 · average (2023/24)
Wolsingham SchoolSecondary4.2 miProgress 8 -0.35 · below average (2023/24)
St John's Catholic School & Sixth Form CollegeSecondary6.0 miProgress 8 +0.16 · 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.

11.9
crimes a month
131
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 31% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01020887, 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.