18 Rock Park, Birkenhead CH42 1PJ

Detached house · Built before 1900 · 394 m² · No system present: electric heaters assumed

Upgrade Plan

GB for £28,210 · £5,642 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Draughtproofing£80 – £120£9790.1 yrs+8.9 pts
Loft insulation£100 – £350£5530.4 yrs+5.0 pts
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£1,1620.9 yrs+10.5 pts · reaches F
Change of heating system£3,000 – £7,000£3,3151.5 yrs+30.1 pts · reaches D
Low energy lighting£135£512.7 yrs+0.5 pts
Double glazing£1,000 – £1,500£4203.0 yrs+3.8 pts
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£1,2567.2 yrs+11.4 pts · reaches C
Solar photovoltaic panels£9,000 – £14,000£1,07510.7 yrs+9.8 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

£10,358
per year at grade G
£1,547
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £8,811 a year — a 31.2% annual return on £28,210.

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

29 November 2023£120,000
10 August 2022£120,000
29 March 2018£100,000
6 November 2015£175,000
30 October 2015£175,000
31 July 2003£220,000

Estimated today: £126,184 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Rock Park: 66 sales since 1995 · £191,263 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Rock Ferry Primary SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
St Anne's Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Grove Street Primary SchoolPrimary0.7 mi
St John Plessington Catholic CollegeSecondary0.9 miProgress 8 -0.35 · below average (2023/24)
Prenton High School for GirlsSecondary1.1 miProgress 8 +0.02 · average (2023/24)
Co-op Academy BebingtonSecondary1.4 miProgress 8 -0.34 · 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.

15.9
crimes a month
175
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 46% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01007290, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Rock Park

How this home sits against its street.

56
graded homes
64.9
average score
C
most common grade
-63.9
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.