5 The Old Smokery, Seahouses NE68 7RB

End-Terrace house · Built 1991-1995 · 72 m² · Owner-Occupied · Electric storage heaters

Upgrade Plan

DB for £16,000 · £8,000 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
High-retention storage heaters£1,200 – £1,800£3184.7 yrs+11.8 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£14930.1 yrs+5.5 pts · reaches C
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£16131.0 yrs+6.0 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£12539.9 yrs+4.7 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

£2,109
per year at grade D
£1,355
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £754 a year — a 4.7% annual return on £16,000.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2020, states £1,371 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

30 August 2024£330,000
23 February 2021£150,000
6 June 2001£79,950

Estimated today: £363,764 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

South Street: 24 sales since 1995 · £250,071 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Seahouses Primary SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Ellingham Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary5.0 mi
Embleton Vincent Edwards Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary5.8 mi

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.

7.4
crimes a month
59
in the last 12 months
Anti-social behaviour
most common · 32% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01027383, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

South Street

How this home sits against its street.

11
graded homes
64.4
average score
C
most common grade
-9.4
this home vs street
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