8 Harold Road, Birmingham B16 9DA

Mid-Terrace house · Built 1900-1929 · 122 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

EC for £15,235 · £7,618 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Low energy lighting£35£132.8 yrs+0.3 pts
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£2873.5 yrs+6.0 pts
Room-in-roof insulation£1,500 – £2,700£3975.3 yrs+8.3 pts · reaches D
Band A condensing boiler£2,200 – £3,000£17714.7 yrs+3.7 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£26616.9 yrs+5.6 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£22322.4 yrs+4.7 pts · reaches C
Solid wall insulation(optional, beyond C)£4,000 – £14,000£31129.0 yrs+6.5 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

£3,374
per year at grade E
£1,701
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £1,362 a year — a 8.9% annual return on £15,235.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2023, states £4,184 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

5 September 2024£172,000

Estimated today: £175,976 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Harold Road: 88 sales since 1995 · £239,434 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
The Oratory Roman Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary0.1 mi
St George's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
St John's & St Peter's CofE PrimaryPrimary0.4 mi
St Paul's School for GirlsSecondary0.4 miProgress 8 +1.23 · well above average (2023/24)
Jewellery Quarter AcademySecondary0.9 miProgress 8 -0.60 · well below average (2023/24)
George Dixon AcademySecondary1.0 miProgress 8 -0.23 · 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.

27
crimes a month
297
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 41% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01008987, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Harold Road

How this home sits against its street.

43
graded homes
59.5
average score
D
most common grade
-16.5
this home vs street
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