179 Mill Street, Brierley Hill DY5 2TH

Mid-Terrace house · Built 1930-1949 · 80 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

CB for £26,800 · £26,800 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Loft insulation£900 – £1,200£3134.0 yrs+2.2 pts
Floor insulation£5,000 – £10,000£6550+ yrs+4.6 pts
Solid wall insulation£7,500 – £11,000£7050+ yrs+5.0 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£8,000 – £10,000£6050+ yrs+4.3 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

£1,129
per year at grade C
£903
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £226 a year — a 0.8% annual return on £26,800.

Energy costs as modelled on the certificate, not a bill.

Sold prices

14 March 2003£70,000
27 February 1998£43,950

Estimated today: £194,323 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Mill Street: 84 sales since 1995 · £161,020 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
St Mary's RC Primary SchoolPrimaryunder 0.1 mi
Brierley Hill Primary SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Mount Pleasant Primary SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Thorns Collegiate AcademySecondary0.6 miProgress 8 -0.52 · well below average (2023/24)
The Wordsley SchoolSecondary1.5 miNot in the KS4 performance tables
The Link AcademySecondary1.6 miProgress 8 -0.02 · 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.

84.2
crimes a month
926
in the last 12 months
Shoplifting
most common · 31% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01009741, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Mill Street

How this home sits against its street.

57
graded homes
54.8
average score
D
most common grade
+14.2
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.