Bears Cottage, Gorcott Hill, Beoley, Redditch B98 9EN

Detached house · 2017 · 124 m² · Unknown · Boiler and underfloor heating, LPG

Upgrade Plan

CB for £11,500 · £11,500 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£3650+ yrs+5.0 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£5,000 – £8,000£4450+ yrs+6.0 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

£640
per year at grade C
£560
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £80 a year — a 0.7% annual return on £11,500.

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

31 July 2019£550,000
4 November 2015£248,000

Estimated today: £694,667 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Gorcott Hill: 26 sales since 1995 · £359,000 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Mappleborough Green CofE Primary SchoolPrimary1.1 mi
Tenacres First SchoolPrimary1.2 mi
Beoley First SchoolPrimary1.3 mi
Arrow Vale High SchoolSecondary1.7 miProgress 8 -0.38 · below average (2023/24)
Tudor Grange Academy RedditchSecondary2.9 miProgress 8 -0.91 · well below average (2023/24)
Trinity High School and Sixth Form CentreSecondary2.9 miProgress 8 -0.30 · 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.

6.3
crimes a month
63
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 33% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01031244, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Gorcott Hill

How this home sits against its street.

16
graded homes
57.9
average score
C
most common grade
+17.1
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.