516a Barrows Lane, Birmingham B26 3BE

Semi-Detached house · Built 1950-1966 · 83 m² · Rented (Private) · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DB for £17,725 · £8,863 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Loft insulation£100 – £350£703.2 yrs+3.0 pts
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£1109.1 yrs+4.8 pts
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£14734.0 yrs+6.4 pts · reaches C
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£11443.8 yrs+4.9 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£5,000 – £8,000£13647.8 yrs+5.9 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

£1,481
per year at grade D
£904
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £577 a year — a 3.3% annual return on £17,725.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2018, states £948 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

27 February 2025£255,000
28 February 2001£70,105

Estimated today: £261,677 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Barrows Lane: 142 sales since 1995 · £237,142 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
St Thomas More Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Lyndon Green Infant SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Lyndon Green Junior SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Lyndon SchoolSecondary0.6 miProgress 8 +0.47 · above average (2023/24)
Cockshut Hill SchoolSecondary0.8 miProgress 8 -0.54 · well below average (2023/24)
King Edward VI Sheldon Heath AcademySecondary0.9 miProgress 8 +0.19 · 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.

18.1
crimes a month
199
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 44% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01009316, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Barrows Lane

How this home sits against its street.

95
graded homes
60.2
average score
D
most common grade
-0.2
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.