1 Starting Chair, Doctor Lane, Scouthead, Oldham, OL4 4AD
About 1 Starting Chair
1 Starting Chair is an end-of-terrace house in Scouthead, Oldham, Oldham (OL4 4AD). It has a recorded floor area of 142 m² (around 1528 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (July 2021) shows a D (score 60), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to A (score 100), a 3-band jump.
At 142 m² the property is well over the postcode median (64 m² across 3 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. One planning record on file: new windows approved in 2021. Past consents include new windows, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Across 2009–2021, sale prices on this property compounded at 0.9% per year. Today's modelled estimate of £402,000 is 48.9% above the 2021 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£177/sq ft) was about 20.6% below the postcode norm. Last sale on file: £270,000 in December 2021. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.
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Energy performance
1 Starting Chair's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
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Planning history
- Nov 2021RenovationHeritageIn report
Existing timber casement windows in white finish to be replaced with timber casement windows in white finish.
- Agent
- Everest 2020 Limited
New Windows- Documents
- 18 docs on file
- Reference
- LBC/347222/21
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Sales history & valuation
Latest sale on 1 Starting Chair was the highest on Land Registry record across the postcode.
£402,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 0.9% per year over 12 years.
£270,000
Growth on file: 0.9% per year over 12 years.
Sales timeline
2 December 2021Most recent
£270,000
+12.0%over 12 years10 September 2009
£241,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in OL4 4AD: £151,800 (2024–2015).
Versus other Doctor Lane homes
On price per m², 1 Starting Chair runs well behind the street norm.
Price per m²
£1,901
Street avg £2,796
Floor Area
142 m²
Street avg 74 m²
Habitable Rooms
6 rooms
Street avg 4 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
7.3 t/year
Street avg 5.7 t/year
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The neighbourhood at a glance
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Nearest stop
0.1 km
Doctor Lane — bus stop.
Closest school
1.1 km
Knowsley Junior School. 19 schools nearby.
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Road noise across the postcode
Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
48.5dB
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
40.1dB