3 The Spinney, Darlington DL3 8QL

Detached house · Built 1967-1975 · 187 m² · Owner-occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

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MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation(optional, beyond C)£800 – £1,200£1407.2 yrs+4.3 pts
Heating controls(optional, beyond C)£350 – £450£517.9 yrs+1.6 pts
Low energy lighting(optional, beyond C)£60£69.8 yrs+0.2 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels(optional, beyond C)£9,000 – £14,000£12950+ yrs+4.0 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

£2,096
per year at grade C
£1,770
per year at grade C

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2013, states £1,265 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

11 December 2020£470,000
12 June 2015£380,000
8 December 2006£385,000
30 April 1999£240,000

Estimated today: £572,032 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

The Spinney: 11 sales since 1995 · £349,714 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Polam Hall SchoolAll-through0.7 miProgress 8 -0.05 · average (2023/24)
Abbey Infants' SchoolPrimary0.7 mi
St Augustine's Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary0.8 mi
Carmel CollegeSecondary1.1 miProgress 8 +0.38 · above average (2023/24)
Hummersknott AcademySecondary1.1 miProgress 8 -0.48 · below average (2023/24)
St Aidan's Church of England AcademySecondary2.0 miProgress 8 -0.96 · 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.

8.5
crimes a month
68
in the last 12 months
Anti-social behaviour
most common · 29% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01012361, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

The Spinney

How this home sits against its street.

5
graded homes
66.8
average score
C
most common grade
+2.2
this home vs street
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