492 Chester Road, Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham B73 5HL

End-Terrace house · Built 1900-1929 · 118 m² · Rented (Private) · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DB for £23,500 · £11,750 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£13134.4 yrs+4.6 pts
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£14135.4 yrs+5.0 pts · reaches C
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£11045.6 yrs+3.9 pts
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£15350+ yrs+5.4 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

£1,840
per year at grade D
£1,305
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £535 a year — a 2.3% annual return on £23,500.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2021, states £1,118 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

12 June 2002£84,000

Estimated today: £272,331 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Chester Road: 477 sales since 1995 · £260,247 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Wylde Green Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Boldmere Junior SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
Boldmere Infant School and NurseryPrimary0.6 mi
St Edmund Campion Catholic SchoolSecondary0.5 miProgress 8 +0.29 · above average (2023/24)
Sutton Coldfield Grammar School for GirlsSecondary1.2 miProgress 8 +1.05 · well above average (2023/24)
Bishop Walsh Catholic SchoolSecondary1.3 miProgress 8 +0.41 · 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.

8.8
crimes a month
97
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 47% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01009460, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Chester Road

How this home sits against its street.

333
graded homes
60.4
average score
D
most common grade
+1.6
this home vs street
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