255 Wakefield Road, Barnsley S71 3TX

Semi-Detached house · Built 1950-1966 · 73 m² · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

DC for £14,785 · £14,785 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Low energy lighting£20 – £50typical£310.7 yrs+0.1 pts
Heating controls£400typical£2714.7 yrs+0.9 pts
Band A condensing boiler£2,600typical£4650+ yrs+1.6 pts
Solar water heating£5,000typical£5850+ yrs+2.0 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£4,500 – £9,000typical£6950+ yrs+2.4 pts · reaches C

Grants verified 20 August 2026. Costs are the register’s indicative ranges, except where marked typical, which this certificate did not price and which are taken instead from comparable homes of the same type. 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

£1,268
per year at grade D
£1,065
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £203 a year — a 1.4% annual return on £14,785.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2011, states £816 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

9 October 2020£116,000
20 April 2007£123,000
31 May 2000£40,000

Estimated today: £155,966 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Wakefield Road: 275 sales since 1995 · £111,068 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Athersley South Primary SchoolPrimary0.1 mi
Laithes Primary SchoolPrimary0.1 mi
Athersley North Primary SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Outwood Academy CarltonSecondary1.4 miProgress 8 -0.25 · below average (2023/24)
Horizon Community CollegeSecondary2.1 miProgress 8 -0.07 · average (2023/24)
Darton AcademySecondary2.9 miProgress 8 +0.37 · above 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.

46.2
crimes a month
508
in the last 12 months
Shoplifting
most common · 42% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01007324, 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.

170
graded homes
61.5
average score
D
most common grade
+0.5
this home vs street
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