2 Bescot Drive, Walsall WS2 9DF

Detached house · Built 1930-1949 · 148 m² · Owner-occupied · Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Upgrade Plan

FC for £25,555 · £8,518 a gradeGet upgrade quotes
MeasureGrantNet costSaving / yrPaybackGrade effect
Loft insulation£100 – £350£2191.0 yrs+4.6 pts
Floor insulation£800 – £1,200£4602.2 yrs+9.6 pts · reaches E
Low energy lighting£55£202.7 yrs+0.4 pts
Flat roof insulation£850 – £1,500£3493.4 yrs+7.3 pts
Band A condensing boiler£2,200 – £3,000£2829.2 yrs+5.9 pts · reaches D
Solid wall insulation£4,000 – £14,000£49718.1 yrs+10.4 pts
Solar photovoltaic panels£9,000 – £14,000£42527.0 yrs+8.9 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

£3,830
per year at grade F
£1,578
per year at grade C

The full plan saves £2,252 a year — a 8.8% annual return on £25,555.

Restated at the fuel prices assumed in July 2026. This certificate, assessed in 2014, states £2,553 a year at the prices assumed then. Modelled costs, not a bill.

Sold prices

8 November 2011£249,500
24 July 1998£127,950

Estimated today: £447,756 HPI-indexed estimate, not a valuation

Bescot Drive: 31 sales since 1995 · £303,550 average over 10 years

Schools nearby

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

SchoolPhaseDistanceProgress
Hillary Primary SchoolPrimary0.4 mi
Albert Pritchard Infant SchoolPrimary0.7 mi
Palfrey Junior SchoolPrimary0.7 mi
Wood Green AcademySecondary0.3 miProgress 8 +0.04 · average (2023/24)
Stuart Bathurst Catholic High SchoolSecondary0.4 miProgress 8 -0.20 · average (2023/24)
Joseph Leckie AcademySecondary1.0 miProgress 8 +0.11 · 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.

17
crimes a month
187
in the last 12 months
Shoplifting
most common · 34% of the total

Police.uk street-level data for LSOA E01010361, to 2026-06. An LSOA holds about 1,500 people, so this covers far more than one street.

Bescot Drive

How this home sits against its street.

26
graded homes
55.2
average score
D
most common grade
-25.2
this home vs street
Energy data © Crown copyright, EPB Register© HM Land Registry, OGL v3We grade homes, never neighbourhoods.