42 Barbara Road, Birmingham B28 0UG

End-Terrace house · Built 1930-1949 · 80 m² · Owner-Occupied · Electric storage heaters

Upgrade Plan

FB for £22,000 · £5,500 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£3193.1 yrs+8.3 pts · reaches E
High-retention storage heaters£2,000 – £3,000£6294.0 yrs+16.4 pts · reaches D
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£29615.2 yrs+7.7 pts · reaches C
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£24820.2 yrs+6.5 pts
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£34526.1 yrs+9.0 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

£2,993
per year at grade F
£1,155
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £1,838 a year — a 8.4% annual return on £22,000.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2023, states £3,301 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

10 August 2023£186,000

Estimated today: £194,802 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Barbara Road: 5 sales since 1995 · £204,000 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Chilcote Primary SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Mill Lodge Primary SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Haslucks Green SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
Christ Church, Church of England Secondary AcademySecondary0.6 miNot in the KS4 performance tables
Light Hall SchoolSecondary1.2 miProgress 8 -0.19 · average (2023/24)
Hall Green SchoolSecondary1.5 miProgress 8 +0.08 · 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.

5.9
crimes a month
65
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 62% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01009042, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Barbara Road

How this home sits against its street.

3
graded homes
55.7
average score
D
most common grade
-18.7
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.