2 Castle Road, Birmingham B29 5BA

Semi-Detached house · Built 1950-1966 · 92 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

CB for £16,500 · £16,500 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£5,000 – £10,000£4150+ yrs+6.2 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£8,000 – £10,000£3750+ yrs+5.8 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

£1,061
per year at grade C
£983
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £78 a year — a 0.5% annual return on £16,500.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2025, states £982 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

14 March 2014£120,000
30 June 2006£108,000
11 March 1997£37,000

Estimated today: £219,928 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Castle Road: 95 sales since 1995 · £162,139 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Our Lady and St Rose of Lima Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Princethorpe Infant SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Princethorpe Junior SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
The University of Birmingham SchoolSecondary0.5 miProgress 8 -0.09 · average (2023/24)
E-ACT Shenley AcademySecondary0.9 miProgress 8 -0.70 · well below average (2023/24)
Dame Elizabeth Cadbury SchoolSecondary0.9 miProgress 8 +0.21 · 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.

8.5
crimes a month
85
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 44% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01009504, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Castle Road

How this home sits against its street.

73
graded homes
64.8
average score
C
most common grade
+7.2
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.