6 The Woods, Grotton, Oldham, OL4 4LP

6 The Woods is a detached house in Grotton, Oldham, Oldham (OL4 4LP). It has a recorded floor area of 115 m² (around 1238 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1976-1982 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (February 2014) shows an E (score 48), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 84), a 3-band jump. The latest certificate is from February 2014, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.

Held since August 1998 — that's 28 years off the open market, well above the local norm. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 115 m² it's 17.6% smaller than the typical home in the postcode (140 m² median across 6 EPCs). On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. Today's modelled estimate of £409,000 sits 271.8% above the 1998 sale of £110,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£89/sq ft) was about 63.2% below the postcode norm.