159 Valley Drive, Kendal LA9 7SF

Detached house · Built 1996-2002 · 105 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DC for £9,000 · £9,000 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Solar photovoltaic panels£8,000 – £10,000£0+9.0 pts · reaches C

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

£1,509
per year at grade D

Energy costs as modelled on the certificate, not a bill.

Sold prices

23 September 1996£89,950

Estimated today: £420,166 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Valley Drive: 433 sales since 1995 · £259,359 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Heron Hill Primary SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Castle Park SchoolPrimary0.9 mi
Dean Gibson Catholic Primary School, KendalPrimary0.9 mi
Kirkbie Kendal SchoolSecondary0.6 miProgress 8 +0.12 · average (2023/24)
The Queen Katherine SchoolSecondary1.7 miProgress 8 +0.08 · average (2023/24)
Dallam SchoolSecondary6.2 miProgress 8 -0.43 · 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.

4.1
crimes a month
29
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 62% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01019362, to 2026-05. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Valley Drive

How this home sits against its street.

134
graded homes
65.2
average score
D
most common grade
+1.8
this home vs street
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