4 Highgrove, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE5 1RT

Detached house · Built 1976-1982 · 148 m² · Owner-occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DC for £8,600 · £8,600 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£1865.4 yrs+5.4 pts
Band A condensing boiler£2,200 – £3,000£11522.7 yrs+3.3 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£14534.6 yrs+4.2 pts · reaches C
Solar photovoltaic panels(optional, beyond C)£9,000 – £14,000£17350+ yrs+5.0 pts

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

£2,362
per year at grade D
£1,744
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £445 a year — a 5.2% annual return on £8,600.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2012, states £1,395 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

28 February 2014£240,000

Estimated today: £372,291 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Highgrove: 8 sales since 1995 · £292,500 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Milecastle Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Knop Law Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
St John Vianney Catholic Primary School, West DentonPrimary0.3 mi
Studio WestSecondary0.5 miProgress 8 -1.54 · well below average (2023/24)
Callerton AcademySecondary1.0 miNot in the KS4 performance tables
Walbottle AcademySecondary1.2 miProgress 8 -0.69 · 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.

3.7
crimes a month
26
in the last 12 months
Anti-social behaviour
most common · 35% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01008446, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Highgrove

How this home sits against its street.

8
graded homes
68
average score
C
most common grade
-9.0
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.