53 Valley Road, Cradley Heath B64 7LT

Semi-Detached house · Built 1930-1949 · 70 m² · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DC for £14,385 · £14,385 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Low energy lighting£20 – £50typical£218.3 yrs+0.1 pts
Band A condensing boiler£2,600typical£2750+ yrs+1.0 pts
Solar water heating£5,000typical£3450+ yrs+1.3 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£4,500 – £9,000typical£4050+ yrs+1.6 pts · reaches C

Grants verified 20 August 2026. Costs are the register’s indicative ranges, except where marked typical, which this certificate did not price and which are taken instead from comparable homes of the same type. 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

£1,099
per year at grade D
£996
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £103 a year — a 0.7% annual return on £14,385.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2009, states £651 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

18 December 2009£105,000
31 October 2008£108,000
7 September 2001£54,500
26 March 1999£44,500

Estimated today: £210,772 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Valley Road: 69 sales since 1995 · £137,750 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Timbertree AcademyPrimaryunder 0.1 mi
Old Hill Primary SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
Cradley CofE Primary SchoolPrimary0.7 mi
Ormiston Forge AcademySecondary0.9 miProgress 8 -0.32 · below average (2023/24)
Windsor High School and Sixth FormSecondary1.1 miProgress 8 +0.15 · average (2023/24)
The Earls High SchoolSecondary1.2 miProgress 8 -0.02 · 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.

13.9
crimes a month
153
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 45% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01009954, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Valley Road

How this home sits against its street.

78
graded homes
69.4
average score
C
most common grade
-4.4
this home vs street
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