43 Dorking Road, Tunbridge Wells TN1 2LN

Semi-Detached house · Built before 1900 · 151 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DC for £11,555 · £11,555 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Low energy lighting£55£105.5 yrs+0.3 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£17828.2 yrs+5.2 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£5,000 – £8,000£21230.7 yrs+6.2 pts · reaches C
Solid wall insulation(optional, beyond C)£4,000 – £14,000£24736.4 yrs+7.3 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

£2,194
per year at grade D
£1,547
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £400 a year — a 3.5% annual return on £11,555.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2015, states £1,541 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

22 May 2015£438,000
23 January 1998£138,000

Estimated today: £640,399 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Dorking Road: 119 sales since 1995 · £606,706 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
St Barnabas CofE VA Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Skinners' Temple GrovePrimary0.5 mi
St James' Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
The Skinners' SchoolSecondary0.6 miProgress 8 +0.99 · well above average (2023/24)
Tunbridge Wells Girls' Grammar SchoolSecondary0.8 miProgress 8 +0.77 · well above average (2023/24)
Skinners' Kent AcademySecondary0.8 miProgress 8 0.00 · 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.

9.8
crimes a month
98
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 34% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01024834, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Dorking Road

How this home sits against its street.

54
graded homes
56
average score
D
most common grade
+3.0
this home vs street
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