40 Blenheim Road, Wakefield WF1 3JZ

Semi-Detached house · Built 1930-1949 · 186 m² · Owner-Occupied · Room heaters, coal

Upgrade Plan

GC for £22,730 · £5,683 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Low energy lighting£5£210.2 yrs+0.4 pts
Loft insulation£100 – £350£2261.0 yrs+4.3 pts
Cavity wall insulation£500 – £1,500£3552.8 yrs+6.8 pts
Biomass boiler£5,000 Boiler Upgrade Scheme£2,000 – £8,000£1,5813.2 yrs+30.1 pts · reaches E
Floor insulation£4,000 – £6,000£47610.5 yrs+9.0 pts · reaches D
Solar water heating£4,000 – £6,000£36913.5 yrs+7.0 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£5,000 – £8,000£44014.8 yrs+8.4 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

£4,880
per year at grade G
£1,411
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £3,469 a year — a 15.3% annual return on £22,730.

Energy costs as modelled on the certificate, not a bill. This fuel has too few recent certificates to restate at today's prices.

Sold prices

12 December 2012£200,000

Estimated today: £358,054 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Blenheim Road: 73 sales since 1995 · £320,424 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Wakefield St Johns Church of England Voluntary Aided Junior and Infant SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
St Austin's Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary0.5 mi
Wakefield Pinders Primary (JIN) SchoolPrimary0.6 mi
Outwood Academy City FieldsSecondary1.1 miProgress 8 +0.08 · average (2023/24)
Outwood Grange AcademySecondary1.2 miProgress 8 -0.13 · average (2023/24)
Trinity Academy CathedralSecondary1.5 miProgress 8 +0.34 · 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.

21.8
crimes a month
240
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 38% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01011923, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Blenheim Road

How this home sits against its street.

42
graded homes
64.9
average score
D
most common grade
-59.9
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.