Smelting Syke, Hexham NE46 1SU

Detached house · Built 1900-1929 · 162 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, B30K

Upgrade Plan

DB for £36,500 · £18,250 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£3750+ yrs+7.1 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£2950+ yrs+5.5 pts · reaches C
Solar photovoltaic panels£5,000 – £8,000£3450+ yrs+6.6 pts
Wind turbine£15,000 – £25,000£3150+ yrs+5.9 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

£1,211
per year at grade D
£1,081
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £130 a year — a 0.4% annual return on £36,500.

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

28 August 2015£595,000

Estimated today: £874,364 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Whitley Chapel Church of England First SchoolPrimary1.1 mi
Hexham First SchoolPrimary2.7 mi
St Mary's Catholic First School, HexhamPrimary2.8 mi
Queen Elizabeth High SchoolSecondary2.9 miProgress 8 +0.27 · above average (2023/24)
Haydon Bridge High SchoolSecondary6.7 miProgress 8 -0.58 · 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.

5.4
crimes a month
43
in the last 12 months
Anti-social behaviour
most common · 33% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01027505, 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.