8 Malvern Crescent, Darlington DL3 9TP

End-Terrace house · Built 1950-1966 · 104 m² · Owner-occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DB for £18,500 · £9,250 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£1248.1 yrs+5.2 pts · reaches C
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£9310.8 yrs+3.9 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£9650+ yrs+4.0 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£9,000 – £14,000£11550+ yrs+4.8 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

£1,439
per year at grade D
£1,012
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £427 a year — a 2.3% annual return on £18,500.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2014, states £1,001 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

18 April 2019£85,000
3 March 2017£67,000
31 May 2007£84,950

Estimated today: £116,218 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Malvern Crescent: 64 sales since 1995 · £85,917 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Mount Pleasant Primary SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Mowden Junior SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
St Mary's Cockerton Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary0.7 mi
Wyvern AcademySecondaryunder 0.1 miProgress 8 -0.52 · well below average (2023/24)
Carmel CollegeSecondary1.1 miProgress 8 +0.38 · above average (2023/24)
Hummersknott AcademySecondary1.2 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.

20
crimes a month
220
in the last 12 months
Anti-social behaviour
most common · 40% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01012314, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Malvern Crescent

How this home sits against its street.

63
graded homes
68.7
average score
C
most common grade
-2.7
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.