3 The Close, Birling, West Malling ME19 5WJ

Detached house · Built 1950-1966 · 102 m² · Owner-occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DB for £18,525 · £9,263 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Low energy lighting£25£64.3 yrs+0.3 pts
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£1347.5 yrs+6.0 pts
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£10010.0 yrs+4.5 pts · reaches C
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£10448.2 yrs+4.7 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£9,000 – £14,000£12450+ yrs+5.6 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

£1,438
per year at grade D
£971
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £467 a year — a 2.5% annual return on £18,525.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2013, states £932 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

25 July 2014£442,000

Estimated today: £679,240 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

The Close: 3 sales since 1995

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Ryarsh Primary SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
Valley Invicta Primary School At Leybourne ChasePrimary0.8 mi
Leybourne, St Peter and St Paul Church of England Primary AcademyPrimary1.2 mi
The Holmesdale SchoolSecondary1.3 miProgress 8 -0.52 · well below average (2023/24)
The Malling SchoolSecondary2.2 miProgress 8 -0.21 · below average (2023/24)
Aylesford SchoolSecondary2.7 miProgress 8 -0.84 · 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.

6.8
crimes a month
61
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 28% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01032829, 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.