Highways, Vicarage Hill, Solihull B94 5EB

Semi-Detached house · Built 1930-1949 · 148 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

FC for £15,175 · £5,058 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Heating controls£350 – £450£1263.2 yrs+2.0 pts · reaches E
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£2593.9 yrs+4.0 pts
Room-in-roof insulation£1,500 – £2,700£4784.4 yrs+7.4 pts
Flat roof insulation£850 – £1,500£2634.5 yrs+4.1 pts · reaches D
Floor insulation£800 – £6,000£3469.8 yrs+5.4 pts
Band A condensing boiler£2,200 – £3,000£21312.2 yrs+3.3 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£32114.0 yrs+5.0 pts · reaches C
Solar water heating(optional, beyond C)£4,000 – £6,000£26918.6 yrs+4.2 pts
Solid wall insulation(optional, beyond C)£4,000 – £14,000£37524.0 yrs+5.8 pts

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

£4,540
per year at grade F
£1,891
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £2,006 a year — a 13.2% annual return on £15,175.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2023, states £5,590 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

No sale recorded for this address since 1995.

Vicarage Hill: 26 sales since 1995 · £893,438 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Tanworth-in-Arden CofE Primary SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Beoley First SchoolPrimary2.4 mi
St Patricks Church of England Primary AcademyPrimary2.6 mi
Arrow Vale High SchoolSecondary3.6 miProgress 8 -0.38 · below average (2023/24)
Woodrush High SchoolSecondary4.0 miProgress 8 -0.41 · below average (2023/24)
Henley In Arden SchoolSecondary4.2 miProgress 8 +0.31 · 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.

13
crimes a month
130
in the last 12 months
Anti-social behaviour
most common · 28% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01031243, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Vicarage Hill

How this home sits against its street.

22
graded homes
58.7
average score
D
most common grade
-20.7
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.