4 Crowshaw Drive, Rochdale, OL12 0SR

4 Crowshaw Drive is a three-bedroom detached house in Rochdale (OL12 0SR). It has a recorded floor area of 71 m² (around 763 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (November 2009) shows an E (score 53), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 73), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from November 2009, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since September 1998 — that's 28 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 71 m² it's 26.2% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (96 m² median across 22 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £229,000 sits 281.7% above the 1998 sale of £60,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£79/sq ft) was about 43.9% below the postcode norm. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2011. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.