Lydgate Fold, Flat 2, Stockport Road, Lydgate, Oldham, OL4 4JL

Lydgate Fold is a one-bedroom mid-terrace house in Lydgate, Oldham, Oldham (OL4 4JL). It has a recorded floor area of 56 m² (around 603 sq ft), construction records dating it to before 1900 and council tax band B. The property has solar panels on record, all of which lower running costs and tend to lift resale appeal. Period features are noted in the property record. At 56 m² this is the 2nd smallest of 10 units on EPC record in Lydgate Fold, where floor areas span 49–122 m². The building's EPC ratings span E to B across 10 units on file. The latest certificate (April 2022) shows a C (score 73). The rating has held steady at C across 3 certificates since October 2008. Between certificates, wall efficiency went from Very Poor to Poor, window efficiency went from Average to Good and lighting went from Average to Very Good; while hot-water efficiency dropped from Poor to Very Poor and main heating dropped from Poor to Very Poor. Main heating runs on electricity.

Sale prices here have outpaced Oldham HPI: 4.9% per year against 0% for the wider region. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£272/sq ft) was about 87.1% above the typical sold price in the postcode. At 56 m² it sits well below the postcode median (89 m² across 18 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. One planning record on file: new windows approved in 2018. Past consents include new windows, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Sold July 2022 for £164,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.