2 Hillyard Cottages, Denshaw Road, Delph, Oldham, OL3 5HN

2 Hillyard Cottages is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Delph, Oldham, Oldham (OL3 5HN). It has a recorded floor area of 75 m² (around 807 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1996-2002 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (April 2022) shows a D (score 66), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 83), a 2-band jump.

At 75 m² the property is well over the postcode median (47 m² across 24 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. Across 2000–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.1% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £368,000 is 13.2% above the 2022 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£403/sq ft) was about 328.6% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: July 2022 at £325,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.