8 Lovelace Road, Oxford, OX2 8LP
About 8 Lovelace Road
8 Lovelace Road is a detached house in Oxford (OX2 8LP). It has a recorded floor area of 146 m² (around 1572 sq ft) and construction records dating it to 1930-1949. The latest certificate (April 2013) shows a D (score 60), on the cusp of jumping into the C band. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 83), a 2-band jump. The latest certificate is from April 2013, so improvements made since then won't be reflected.
At 146 m² the property is well over the postcode median (103 m² across 19 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. Last sale on file: £1,215,000 in August 2022. Across the public record there are 4 sales, relatively high churn for a single property. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend. Across 2004–2022, sale prices on this property compounded at 5.4% per year. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£773/sq ft) was about 101.3% above the typical sold price in the postcode. 3 planning records sit against the property, 0 approved, 2 refused.
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Energy performance
8 Lovelace Road's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
EPC Expired
This certificate is over 10 years old and is no longer valid.Expired 28 Apr 2023
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Planning history
3 applications on record at 8 Lovelace Road, Oxford, OX2 8LP
- Mar 2009OutbuildingOutlineOutcome in report
New outhouse attached to front of property.
- Documents
- 1 doc on file
- Reference
- 09/00368/PDC
- More recent applications — locked
- Loft ConversionSept 2016Decision
- Loft ConversionJun 2016Decision
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Sales history & valuation
Latest sale on 8 Lovelace Road was the highest on Land Registry record across the postcode.
£1,197,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 5.4% per year over 18 years.
£1,215,000
Growth on file: 5.4% per year over 18 years.
Sales timeline
16 August 2022Most recent
£1,215,000
+43.0%over 6 years4 March 2016
£849,640
+4.3%over 1 year9 July 2014
£815,000
+71.6%over 9 years19 August 2004
£475,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in OX2 8LP: £600,000 (2023–2019).
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Versus other Lovelace Road homes
8 Lovelace Road outperforms the street on price per m² by a wide margin.
Price per m²
£8,322
Street avg £4,790
Floor Area
146 m²
Street avg 111 m²
Habitable Rooms
7 rooms
Street avg 6 rooms
CO₂ Emissions
6.5 t/year
Street avg 4.4 t/year
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Crime
4/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.1 km
Harefields — bus stop.
Closest school
0.7 km
Cutteslowe Primary School. 10 schools nearby.
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Road noise across the postcode
Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
52.6dB
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
45.5dB