27 Broadfern Road, Knowle, Solihull B93 9DE

Detached house · Built 1950-1966 · 140 m² · No system present: electric heaters assumed

Upgrade Plan

GB for £25,550 · £5,110 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Draughtproofing£80 – £120£4640.2 yrs+9.4 pts
Loft insulation£100 – £350£2620.9 yrs+5.3 pts
High-retention storage heaters£1,500 – £2,000£1,0851.6 yrs+22.1 pts · reaches F
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£5511.8 yrs+11.2 pts · reaches E
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£4122.4 yrs+8.4 pts · reaches D
Low energy lighting£75£243.1 yrs+0.5 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£42711.7 yrs+8.7 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£9,000 – £14,000£51022.6 yrs+10.4 pts · reaches C
Double glazing£3,300 – £6,500£19924.6 yrs+4.1 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

£4,746
per year at grade G
£811
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £3,935 a year — a 15.4% annual return on £25,550.

Energy costs as modelled on the certificate, not a bill. This fuel has too few recent certificates to restate at today's prices.

Sold prices

8 March 2013£500,000
20 June 2008£400,000

Estimated today: £873,484 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Broadfern Road: 74 sales since 1995 · £738,902 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Knowle Church of England Primary AcademyPrimary0.7 mi
Bentley Heath Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary1.1 mi
St George and St Teresa Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary1.3 mi
ArdenSecondary1.0 miProgress 8 +0.59 · well above average (2023/24)
St Peter's Catholic SchoolSecondary2.1 miProgress 8 +0.32 · above average (2023/24)
Tudor Grange Academy, SolihullSecondary2.4 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.

5.1
crimes a month
51
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 43% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01010154, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Broadfern Road

How this home sits against its street.

38
graded homes
64.1
average score
D
most common grade
-63.1
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.