7a The Straits, Dudley DY3 3AA

Detached house · Built 1967-1975 · 100 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DB for £19,500 · £9,750 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Heating controls£350 – £450£3112.9 yrs+1.6 pts
Band A condensing boiler£2,200 – £3,000£5249.8 yrs+2.7 pts · reaches C
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£8550+ yrs+4.3 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£6650+ yrs+3.4 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£5,000 – £8,000£7950+ yrs+4.0 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

£1,472
per year at grade D
£1,159
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £313 a year — a 1.6% annual return on £19,500.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2018, states £945 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

5 April 2019£235,000
5 September 1997£81,500

Estimated today: £329,692 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

The Straits: 184 sales since 1995 · £224,291 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Straits Primary SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Red Hall Primary SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
Roberts Primary SchoolPrimary0.9 mi
Ellowes Hall Sports CollegeSecondary0.6 miProgress 8 -0.46 · below average (2023/24)
Beacon Hill AcademySecondary1.6 miProgress 8 -0.04 · average (2023/24)
The Dormston SchoolSecondary1.7 miProgress 8 -0.44 · 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.

3.7
crimes a month
26
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 38% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01009899, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

The Straits

How this home sits against its street.

92
graded homes
61.4
average score
D
most common grade
+3.6
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.