2a Abbey Road, Smethwick B67 5RD

Detached flat · Built before 1900 · 47 m² · Room heaters, electric

Upgrade Plan

GF for £1,250 · £1,250 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
High-retention storage heaters£1,000 – £1,500typical£1,0291.2 yrs+18.1 pts · reaches F
Solid wall insulation(optional, beyond F)£9,000typical£56415.9 yrs+9.9 pts

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

£3,808
per year at grade G
£2,215
per year at grade F

The full plan saves £1,029 a year — a 82.3% annual return on £1,250.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2010, states £1,547 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

No sale recorded for this address since 1995.

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
St Gregory's Catholic Primary SchoolPrimaryunder 0.1 mi
Abbey Junior SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Abbey Infant SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Lordswood Boys' SchoolSecondary0.5 miProgress 8 +0.19 · average (2023/24)
Shireland Collegiate AcademySecondary0.6 miProgress 8 +0.38 · above average (2023/24)
King Edward VI Lordswood School for GirlsSecondary0.8 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.

7.3
crimes a month
73
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 32% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01009926, 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
-53.6
this home vs street
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