3 James Street, Great Howarth, Rochdale, OL12 9HU

3 James Street is a three-bedroom mid-terrace house in Great Howarth, Rochdale, Rochdale (OL12 9HU). It has a recorded floor area of 109 m² (around 1173 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band A. The latest certificate (July 2014) shows an E (score 42), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 2 certificates since June 2014. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 66). The latest certificate is from July 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Untraded for 28 years, with the last transfer in August 1998. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 109 m² the property is well over the postcode median (81 m² across 4 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £173,000 sits 276.1% above the 1998 sale of £46,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£39/sq ft) was about 63.8% below the postcode norm.