8 Winchester Close, Rowley Regis B65 0PW

End-Terrace flat · Built 1983-1990 · 45 m² · Owner-Occupied · No system present: electric heaters assumed

Upgrade Plan

FC for £6,000 · £2,000 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
High-retention storage heaters£800 – £1,200£5641.8 yrs+24.5 pts · reaches D
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£28717.5 yrs+12.5 pts · reaches C

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

£1,540
per year at grade F
£689
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £851 a year — a 14.2% annual return on £6,000.

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

26 August 2022£66,100
6 June 2003£47,000
21 December 2001£28,500
3 December 1999£26,000
14 July 1995£26,000
28 April 1995£24,000

Estimated today: £67,578 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Winchester Close: 162 sales since 1995 · £85,022 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Causeway Green Primary SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
St James CofE Primary SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Langley Primary SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
Oldbury AcademySecondary0.8 miProgress 8 -0.09 · average (2023/24)
St Michael's Church of England High SchoolSecondary0.9 miProgress 8 +0.28 · above average (2023/24)
Q3 Academy LangleySecondary1.0 miProgress 8 +0.81 · 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.

12.6
crimes a month
139
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 47% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01010004, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Winchester Close

How this home sits against its street.

55
graded homes
60.3
average score
C
most common grade
-28.3
this home vs street
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