173 Wakefield Road, Huddersfield HD5 9BE

Mid-Terrace house · Built 1930-1949 · 111 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

EC for £21,000 · £10,500 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Draughtproofing£80 – £120£1340.7 yrs+4.6 pts
Heating controls£350 – £450£586.9 yrs+2.0 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£12440.5 yrs+4.3 pts · reaches D
Solar photovoltaic panels£5,000 – £8,000£14744.1 yrs+5.1 pts
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£17250+ yrs+6.0 pts · reaches C
Double glazing(optional, beyond C)£3,300 – £6,500£5850+ yrs+2.0 pts

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

£2,219
per year at grade E
£1,526
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £635 a year — a 3.0% annual return on £21,000.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2016, states £1,575 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

30 August 2024£140,000
18 May 2016£118,000
29 September 2006£112,000
23 August 2002£50,000
17 November 1995£38,750

Estimated today: £147,703 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Wakefield Road: 309 sales since 1995 · £162,474 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Moldgreen Community Primary SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Lowerhouses CofE Primary SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
Netherhall St James CofE (VC) Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimary0.7 mi
Netherhall Learning Campus High SchoolSecondary1.0 miProgress 8 -0.09 · average (2023/24)
King James's SchoolSecondary1.3 miProgress 8 0.00 · average (2023/24)
Newsome AcademySecondary1.4 miProgress 8 -0.19 · 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.

8.6
crimes a month
95
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 51% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01011098, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Wakefield Road

How this home sits against its street.

200
graded homes
61.8
average score
D
most common grade
-13.8
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.