2 The Wickets, Wakefield, Wakefield WF2 6AR

Detached house · Built 1983-1990 · 147 m² · Owner-Occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

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MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation(optional, beyond C)£800 – £1,200£6216.2 yrs+4.7 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels(optional, beyond C)£3,500 – £5,500£5750+ yrs+4.3 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

£1,720
per year at grade C
£1,601
per year at grade C

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2020, states £1,084 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

23 April 2021£455,000
28 April 1999£169,000
14 December 1995£149,950

Estimated today: £561,238 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

The Wickets: 8 sales since 1995

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Sandal Castle VA Community Primary SchoolPrimary0.1 mi
Sandal Magna Community AcademyPrimary0.6 mi
Methodist Voluntary Controlled Junior, Infant and Nursery School: With Communication ResourcePrimary1.1 mi
St Thomas à Becket Catholic Secondary School, A Voluntary AcademySecondary0.2 miProgress 8 +0.29 · above average (2023/24)
Kettlethorpe High SchoolSecondary1.0 miProgress 8 -0.06 · average (2023/24)
Trinity Academy CathedralSecondary1.6 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.

11.8
crimes a month
118
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 39% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01011945, 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.