17 Hillside Close, Wakefield WF2 8UN

End-Terrace house · Built 1976-1982 · 64 m² · Rented (Private) · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

CB for £5,500 · £5,500 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£3231.1 yrs+5.9 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£3,500 – £5,500£3050+ yrs+5.5 pts · reaches B
Solar water heating(optional, beyond B)£4,000 – £6,000£2550+ yrs+4.6 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

£863
per year at grade C
£776
per year at grade B

The full plan saves £62 a year — a 1.1% annual return on £5,500.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2022, states £510 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

12 November 2021£112,500
13 March 2013£75,000

Estimated today: £131,540 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Hillside Close: 66 sales since 1995 · £123,143 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Wakefield Snapethorpe Primary SchoolPrimaryunder 0.1 mi
English Martyrs Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary AcademyPrimary0.6 mi
The Mount Junior Infant & Nursery SchoolPrimary0.7 mi
Horbury AcademySecondary0.7 miProgress 8 +0.32 · above average (2023/24)
Trinity Academy CathedralSecondary0.8 miProgress 8 +0.34 · above average (2023/24)
Ossett Academy and Sixth Form CollegeSecondary1.8 miProgress 8 +0.24 · 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.

24.6
crimes a month
271
in the last 12 months
Shoplifting
most common · 32% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01011903, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Hillside Close

How this home sits against its street.

21
graded homes
63.6
average score
C
most common grade
+9.4
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.