Grims Kitchen, Guildford Road, Abinger Hammer, Dorking RH5 6RY

Detached house · Built before 1900 · 105 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DB for £25,658 · £12,829 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Hot water cylinder insulation£15 – £30£1270.2 yrs+3.8 pts
Low energy lighting£35£75.4 yrs+0.2 pts
Room-in-roof insulation£1,500 – £2,700£20610.2 yrs+6.1 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£13832.6 yrs+4.1 pts · reaches C
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£14933.6 yrs+4.5 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£11643.3 yrs+3.5 pts
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£16150+ yrs+4.8 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

£2,097
per year at grade D
£1,194
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £903 a year — a 3.5% annual return on £25,658.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2023, states £2,857 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

No sale recorded for this address since 1995.

Guildford Road: 10 sales since 1995 · £631,667 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Shere CofE Aided Infant SchoolPrimary1.3 mi
Peaslake Free SchoolPrimary1.5 mi
Surrey Hills All Saints Primary SchoolPrimary3.2 mi
The Priory Church of England SchoolSecondary4.1 miAttainment 8 40.1 · no Progress 8 published
Howard of Effingham SchoolSecondary4.3 miProgress 8 +0.24 · above average (2023/24)
The Ashcombe SchoolSecondary4.8 miProgress 8 +0.27 · 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.

9.6
crimes a month
96
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 28% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01030555, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Guildford Road

How this home sits against its street.

10
graded homes
45
average score
E
most common grade
+11.0
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.