1 Clough Cottage, Road Knowl, Shaw, Oldham, OL2 8QQ

1 Clough Cottage is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Shaw, Oldham, Oldham (OL2 8QQ). It has a recorded floor area of 350 m² (around 3767 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (December 2016) shows an E (score 45), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The rating has held steady at E across 3 certificates since April 2010. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Good and lighting went from Poor to Very Good; while roof efficiency dropped from Good to Very Poor and window efficiency dropped from Good to Average. The recommended improvements would push it to D (score 63). Other recorded features include a self-contained annexe. Period features are noted in the property record.

It hasn't traded since July 2004, a hold of 22 years that's notably long for the area. At 350 m² the property is well over the postcode median (107 m² across 5 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 £438,000 sits 119% above the 2004 sale of £200,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£53/sq ft) was about 71.6% below the postcode norm.