7 Orchid Close, South Shields NE34 0BE

Semi-Detached house · Built 1930-1949 · 65 m² · No system present: electric heaters assumed

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This certificate lists these measures but records the same score with and without them, so there is no saving or rating gain to attribute to any one of them. That usually means the assessment was incomplete — here the assessor recorded no heating system at all. The costs below are real; a fresh assessment would be the way to find the gain.

MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Change of heating system£5,000typical
Double glazing£1,200 – £4,900typical
Solar water heating£5,000typical
Solar photovoltaic panels£4,500 – £9,000typical

Grants verified 20 August 2026. Costs are the register’s indicative ranges, except where marked typical, which this certificate did not price and which are taken instead from comparable homes of the same type.

Running costs

£3,597
per year at grade G

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2009, states £1,293 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

No sale recorded for this address since 1995.

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Holy Trinity Church of England Academy (South Shields)Primary0.2 mi
Biddick Hall Junior SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
SS Peter and Paul Catholic Primary School, South ShieldsPrimary0.4 mi
St Wilfrid's RC CollegeSecondary0.7 miProgress 8 -0.27 · below average (2023/24)
Mortimer Community CollegeSecondary1.0 miProgress 8 -0.53 · well below average (2023/24)
Harton AcademySecondary1.5 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.

10.2
crimes a month
112
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 38% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01008593, 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.