79 Vicarage Road, Wednesbury WS10 9DP

Mid-Terrace house · Built before 1900 · 83 m² · Owner-Occupied · Electric storage heaters

Upgrade Plan

FC for £33,550 · £11,183 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Flat roof insulation£900 – £1,200£2913.6 yrs+4.9 pts
Change of heating system£3,500 – £10,000£1,0946.2 yrs+18.4 pts · reaches D
Floor insulation£5,000 – £10,000£38319.6 yrs+6.5 pts
Solid wall insulation£7,500 – £11,000£41522.3 yrs+7.0 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£8,000 – £10,000£35525.4 yrs+6.0 pts · reaches C
Low energy lighting(optional, beyond C)£750 – £875£1748.4 yrs+0.3 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

£3,653
per year at grade F
£1,098
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £2,538 a year — a 7.6% annual return on £33,550.

Energy costs as modelled on the certificate, not a bill.

Sold prices

29 May 2026£180,000
4 April 2011£98,000

Estimated today: £177,382 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Vicarage Road: 163 sales since 1995 · £152,071 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
St Mary's Catholic Primary SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Wood Green Junior SchoolPrimary0.2 mi
Albert Pritchard Infant SchoolPrimary0.3 mi
Stuart Bathurst Catholic High SchoolSecondary0.6 miProgress 8 -0.20 · average (2023/24)
Wood Green AcademySecondary0.7 miProgress 8 +0.04 · average (2023/24)
Wodensborough Ormiston AcademySecondary0.8 miProgress 8 -0.53 · well 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.

10.6
crimes a month
117
in the last 12 months
Violence and sexual offences
most common · 44% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01010091, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Vicarage Road

How this home sits against its street.

75
graded homes
55.3
average score
D
most common grade
-23.3
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.