14 Buildwas, Telford TF8 7DB

Detached house · Built before 1900 · 200 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, oil

Upgrade Plan

FC for £29,778 · £9,926 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Hot water cylinder insulation£15 – £400£3250.6 yrs+6.0 pts
Heating controls£350 – £450£1382.9 yrs+2.6 pts
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£2843.5 yrs+5.2 pts · reaches E
Low energy lighting£70£174.2 yrs+0.3 pts
Band A condensing boiler£2,200 – £3,000£23311.1 yrs+4.3 pts
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£38013.2 yrs+7.0 pts
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£29517.0 yrs+5.4 pts · reaches D
Solar photovoltaic panels£5,000 – £8,000£35218.5 yrs+6.5 pts
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£41121.9 yrs+7.6 pts · reaches C

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

£4,386
per year at grade F
£1,952
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £2,434 a year — a 8.2% annual return on £29,778.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2019, states £2,678 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

23 October 2019£420,000

Estimated today: £551,250 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Maypole Cottage: 2 sales since 1995

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Buildwas AcademyPrimaryunder 0.1 mi
Coalbrookdale and Ironbridge CofE Primary AcademyPrimary2.0 mi
Christ Church Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary2.4 mi
William Brookes SchoolSecondary2.7 miProgress 8 -0.95 · well below average (2023/24)
Haberdashers' Abraham DarbySecondary3.0 miProgress 8 -0.74 · well below average (2023/24)
Madeley AcademySecondary3.4 miProgress 8 -0.29 · 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.

8.3
crimes a month
91
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 49% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01028980, 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.