159 Abbey Road, Smethwick B67 5LX

Semi-Detached house · Built 1930-1949 · 96 m² · Owner-Occupied · Room heaters, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

EB for £24,500 · £8,167 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£2414.1 yrs+6.2 pts
Change of heating system£3,000 – £7,000£6887.3 yrs+17.6 pts · reaches C
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£22320.2 yrs+5.7 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£18726.7 yrs+4.8 pts
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£26134.5 yrs+6.7 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

£2,520
per year at grade E
£919
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £1,601 a year — a 6.5% annual return on £24,500.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2021, states £1,516 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

24 March 2023£254,000

Estimated today: £278,762 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Abbey Road: 294 sales since 1995 · £237,575 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Abbey Junior SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Abbey Infant SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
St Gregory's Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Bristnall Hall AcademySecondary0.6 miProgress 8 +0.59 · well above average (2023/24)
Lordswood Boys' SchoolSecondary0.8 miProgress 8 +0.19 · average (2023/24)
King Edward VI Lordswood School for GirlsSecondary1.0 miProgress 8 +0.75 · 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.

6.3
crimes a month
63
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 43% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01009923, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Abbey Road

How this home sits against its street.

157
graded homes
59.6
average score
D
most common grade
-13.6
this home vs street
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