40 Rawlings Road, Smethwick B67 5AA

Mid-Terrace house · Built 1900-1929 · 72 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

EC for £15,880 · £7,940 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Draughtproofing£80 – £120£1120.9 yrs+4.6 pts
Flue gas heat recovery£400 – £900£1295.0 yrs+5.3 pts
Low energy lighting£30£65.2 yrs+0.2 pts
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£1327.6 yrs+5.4 pts · reaches D
Band A condensing boiler£2,200 – £3,000£8132.0 yrs+3.3 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£10348.7 yrs+4.2 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£5,000 – £8,000£12350+ yrs+5.0 pts · reaches C
Solid wall insulation(optional, beyond C)£4,000 – £14,000£14350+ yrs+5.9 pts
Double glazing(optional, beyond C)£3,300 – £6,500£4850+ yrs+2.0 pts

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

£1,941
per year at grade E
£1,065
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £685 a year — a 4.3% annual return on £15,880.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2017, states £1,287 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

6 November 2018£160,000
16 June 2017£110,000
27 February 2003£22,500

Estimated today: £237,915 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Rawlings Road: 180 sales since 1995 · £162,067 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Bearwood Primary SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
St Gregory's Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Uplands Manor Primary School and NurseryPrimary0.4 mi
Shireland Collegiate AcademySecondary0.4 miProgress 8 +0.38 · above average (2023/24)
Lordswood Boys' SchoolSecondary0.5 miProgress 8 +0.19 · average (2023/24)
George Dixon AcademySecondary0.7 miProgress 8 -0.23 · below 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.

12.9
crimes a month
142
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 56% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01009928, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Rawlings Road

How this home sits against its street.

78
graded homes
57.7
average score
D
most common grade
-14.7
this home vs street
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