42 Tower Road, Sutton Coldfield B75 5EL

Mid-Terrace house · Built 1900-1929 · 67 m² · Rented (Private) · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

CB for £18,500 · £18,500 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£3650+ yrs+5.0 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£3050+ yrs+4.2 pts
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£4250+ yrs+5.8 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

£1,012
per year at grade C
£904
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £108 a year — a 0.6% annual return on £18,500.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2021, states £630 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

26 November 2021£215,000
29 September 2017£183,000
27 November 2009£152,000
10 November 2006£147,500
27 May 2002£92,000
26 April 1996£32,000

Estimated today: £247,871 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Tower Road: 150 sales since 1995 · £257,153 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Mere Green Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Moor Hall Primary SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Little Sutton Primary SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
The Arthur Terry SchoolSecondary0.6 miProgress 8 +0.11 · average (2023/24)
Bishop Vesey's Grammar SchoolSecondary1.4 miProgress 8 +0.75 · well above average (2023/24)
Plantsbrook SchoolSecondary2.1 miProgress 8 -0.01 · 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.

12.5
crimes a month
137
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 43% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01009423, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Tower Road

How this home sits against its street.

96
graded homes
61.5
average score
D
most common grade
+7.5
this home vs street
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