1 Barr Close, Wallsend NE28 9SZ

End-Terrace house · Built 1967-1975 · 87 m² · Rented (social) · No system present: electric heaters assumed

Upgrade Plan

FB for £20,250 · £5,063 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
High-retention storage heaters£1,500 – £2,000£4124.2 yrs+18.9 pts · reaches E
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£2094.8 yrs+9.6 pts · reaches D
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£1566.4 yrs+7.2 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£16230.8 yrs+7.4 pts · reaches C
Solar photovoltaic panels£9,000 – £14,000£19450+ yrs+8.9 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

£1,862
per year at grade F
£728
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £1,134 a year — a 5.6% annual return on £20,250.

Energy costs as modelled on the certificate, not a bill. This fuel has too few recent certificates to restate at today's prices.

Sold prices

No sale recorded for this address since 1995.

Barr Close: 8 sales since 1995 · £123,000 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Battle Hill Primary SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Hadrian Park Primary SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
St Aidan's Catholic Primary School, WallsendPrimary0.4 mi
Burnside CollegeSecondary1.0 miProgress 8 -0.46 · below average (2023/24)
Norham High SchoolSecondary1.6 miProgress 8 +0.20 · average (2023/24)
St Thomas More Catholic High SchoolSecondary1.6 miProgress 8 +0.21 · above 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.

14.4
crimes a month
115
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 39% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01008463, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Barr Close

How this home sits against its street.

16
graded homes
78.1
average score
C
most common grade
-46.1
this home vs street
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