50 Willes Road, Birmingham B18 4PY

Mid-Terrace house · Built 1900-1929 · 63 m² · Owner-occupied · No system present: electric heaters assumed

Upgrade Plan

GB for £34,623 · £6,925 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Hot water cylinder insulation£15 – £30£1460.2 yrs+7.0 pts
Draughtproofing£80 – £120£1440.7 yrs+6.9 pts · reaches F
Loft insulation£100 – £350£812.8 yrs+3.9 pts
Low energy lighting£25£73.3 yrs+0.4 pts
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£1715.8 yrs+8.2 pts
Change of heating system£3,000 – £7,000£48810.2 yrs+23.3 pts · reaches D
Wind turbine£1,500 – £4,000£14219.4 yrs+6.8 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£13337.7 yrs+6.3 pts · reaches C
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£18548.7 yrs+8.8 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£9,000 – £14,000£15850+ yrs+7.6 pts · reaches B
Double glazing(optional, beyond B)£3,300 – £6,500£6250+ yrs+3.0 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

£2,149
per year at grade G
£431
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £1,656 a year — a 4.8% annual return on £34,623.

Energy costs as modelled on the certificate, not a bill. This fuel has too few recent certificates to restate at today's prices.

Sold prices

No sale recorded for this address since 1995.

Willes Road: 177 sales since 1995 · £107,495 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Oasis Academy FoundryPrimary0.3 mi
Oasis Academy BensonPrimary0.3 mi
Oasis Academy BoultonPrimary0.3 mi
Windsor Olympus AcademySecondary0.3 miNot in the KS4 performance tables
King Edward VI Handsworth Grammar School for BoysSecondary0.6 miProgress 8 +0.78 · well above average (2023/24)
King Edward VI Handsworth SchoolSecondary0.6 miProgress 8 +0.80 · well 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.

43.2
crimes a month
475
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 52% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01009360, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Willes Road

How this home sits against its street.

128
graded homes
63.2
average score
D
most common grade
-54.2
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.