2 Poplar Cottages, Icknield Street, Beoley, Redditch B98 9AP

Semi-Detached house · Built 1900-1929 · 93 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, smokeless fuel

Upgrade Plan

FA for £35,860 · £7,172 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Draughtproofing£80 – £120£891.1 yrs+5.1 pts
Hot water cylinder insulation£200 – £400£903.3 yrs+5.2 pts
Loft insulation£100 – £350£504.5 yrs+2.9 pts · reaches E
Low energy lighting£35£57.6 yrs+0.3 pts
Heating controls£350 – £450£3910.4 yrs+2.2 pts
High-performance doors£1,500 – £500£8511.8 yrs+4.9 pts
Biomass boiler£5,000 Boiler Upgrade Scheme£2,000 – £8,000£35214.2 yrs+20.2 pts · reaches D
Floor insulation£800 – £6,000£10632.1 yrs+6.1 pts · reaches C
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£8250+ yrs+4.7 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£5,000 – £8,000£9850+ yrs+5.6 pts · reaches B
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£11450+ yrs+6.6 pts
Double glazing£3,300 – £6,500£3850+ yrs+2.2 pts · reaches A
Wind turbine(optional, beyond A)£15,000 – £25,000£8850+ yrs+5.0 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

£2,004
per year at grade F
£768
per year at grade A

The full plan saves £1,148 a year — a 3.2% annual return on £35,860.

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

13 December 2019£260,000
14 May 2019£235,000

Estimated today: £322,127 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Icknield Street: 64 sales since 1995 · £399,826 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Beoley First SchoolPrimary1.0 mi
Abbeywood First SchoolPrimary1.1 mi
Moons Moat First SchoolPrimary1.5 mi
Trinity High School and Sixth Form CentreSecondary2.0 miProgress 8 -0.30 · below average (2023/24)
Arrow Vale High SchoolSecondary2.5 miProgress 8 -0.38 · below average (2023/24)
Tudor Grange Academy RedditchSecondary3.5 miProgress 8 -0.91 · well below 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.

12.8
crimes a month
141
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 28% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01032123, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Icknield Street

How this home sits against its street.

32
graded homes
59.2
average score
D
most common grade
-32.2
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.