Skinner cottage, DY9 0BN

Detached house · Built before 1900 · 201 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, oil

Upgrade Plan

EB for £44,675 · £14,892 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Flat roof insulation£850 – £1,500£2025.8 yrs+6.1 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£24618.3 yrs+7.4 pts · reaches D
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£26618.8 yrs+8.0 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£20724.2 yrs+6.2 pts · reaches C
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£28831.3 yrs+8.7 pts
Wind turbine£15,000 – £25,000£22150+ yrs+6.6 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

£3,453
per year at grade E
£2,023
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £1,430 a year — a 3.2% annual return on £44,675.

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

Sold prices

29 July 2025£860,000
14 July 2014£620,000
31 January 2001£380,000

Estimated today: £859,147 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Drayton: 3 sales since 1995

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Belbroughton CofE Primary SchoolPrimary1.0 mi
Chaddesley Corbett Endowed Primary SchoolPrimary2.0 mi
Clent Parochial Primary SchoolPrimary2.1 mi
Hagley Catholic High SchoolSecondary2.9 miProgress 8 +0.30 · above average (2023/24)
Haybridge High School and Sixth FormSecondary2.9 miProgress 8 +0.39 · above average (2023/24)
King Charles I SchoolSecondary4.0 miProgress 8 -0.33 · 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.

7.7
crimes a month
69
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 41% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01032431, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.