8 Thorpe Street, Easington Colliery, Peterlee SR8 3LU

Mid-Terrace house · Built 1930-1949 · 80 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DB for £10,350 · £5,175 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Party wall insulation£300 – £600£548.3 yrs+2.7 pts · reaches C
Heating controls£350 – £450£3611.0 yrs+1.8 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£9348.6 yrs+4.6 pts
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£10050.0 yrs+5.0 pts · reaches B
Solar water heating(optional, beyond B)£4,000 – £6,000£7850+ yrs+3.9 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

£1,398
per year at grade D
£1,037
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £283 a year — a 2.7% annual return on £10,350.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2024, states £1,505 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

15 March 2024£54,500
7 March 2024£39,995

Estimated today: £60,780 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Thorpe Street: 107 sales since 1995 · £41,453 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Easington Colliery Primary SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Easington CofE Primary SchoolPrimary1.2 mi
Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary1.2 mi
Easington AcademySecondary1.1 miProgress 8 -0.12 · average (2023/24)
Dene AcademySecondary2.3 miProgress 8 +0.33 · above average (2023/24)
St Bede's Catholic School and Byron Sixth Form CollegeSecondary2.4 miProgress 8 -0.22 · 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.

13.8
crimes a month
152
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 51% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01020751, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Thorpe Street

How this home sits against its street.

32
graded homes
65.9
average score
C
most common grade
+1.1
this home vs street
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