Ann Square Oldham

19 addresses across 2 postcodes (OL4), about 40 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 29400449.

  • Sales: 17 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £157,500 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 11 homes have an energy certificate (C: 5, D: 5, F: 1).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Oldham costs £2,602 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 80% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Greenfield, about 4.4 km (2.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Waterhead Park, is about 100 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 12.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 216 to 219 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 14 of its 19 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Springfield House, about 270 m away, with 5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 350 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 31% of households owned their home and 16% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20251£157,500£157,500£157,500
20221£85,000£85,000£85,000
20171£67,612£67,612£67,612
20161£65,000£65,000£65,000
20111£57,000£57,000£57,000
20091£17,000£17,000£17,000
20071£79,710£79,710£79,710
20051£75,000£75,000£75,000
20041£33,000£33,000£33,000
20022£26,225£14,950£37,500
19982£27,500£20,000£35,000
19951£19,500£19,500£19,500
Most recent sales (17)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
21 Nov 20254 OL4 2HPTerraced£110,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
11 Nov 20254 OL4 2HPTerraced£110,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
14 Mar 202519 OL4 2HPTerraced£157,500Leasehold.
26 Apr 202411 OL4 2HPTerraced£72,250Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
9 Sep 20229 OL4 2HPTerraced£85,000Leasehold.
21 Jul 201715 OL4 2HPTerraced£67,612Leasehold.
29 Jul 20163 OL4 2HPFlat or maisonette£65,000Leasehold.
14 Jan 201118 OL4 2HPTerraced£57,000Leasehold.
20 Nov 20092 OL4 2HPTerraced£17,000Leasehold.
8 Feb 200719 OL4 2HPTerraced£79,710Leasehold.
30 Sep 200517 OL4 2HPTerraced£75,000Leasehold.
17 Dec 20048 OL4 2HPTerraced£33,000Leasehold.
19 Apr 200211 OL4 2HPTerraced£14,950Leasehold.
18 Jan 200217 OL4 2HPTerraced£37,500Leasehold.
3 Jul 199817 OL4 2HPTerraced£35,000Leasehold.
20 Mar 19986 OL4 2HPTerraced£20,000Leasehold.
6 Mar 199516 OL4 2HPSemi-detached£19,500Leasehold.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026 (load in progress). Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from December 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

11 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 53 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (5); House, end-terrace (3); House, enclosed end-terrace (1). Built: 1976-1982 (3); 1983-1990 (3); 1991-1995 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (9); rented (private) (1).

Council tax

What each band costs in Oldham in 2026-27: Band D £2,602 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,735£2,024£2,313£2,602£3,181£3,759£4,337£5,204

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (73% of about 710 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

Finished in the last three months

  • 14 September 2026 to 16 September 2026: United Utilities Water Ltd, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 3 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
OL4 2HPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 3 unlikely
OL4 2HHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's 19 addresses are between 216 m and 219 m above sea level (217 m on average).

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
OL4 2HH100%80%80%0%
OL4 2HP100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsGreenfield 351,000 journeys in 2024–254.4 km (2.8 miles)
Mossley (Manchester) 260,000 journeys in 2024–254.5 km (2.8 miles)
Mills Hill (Manchester) 304,000 journeys in 2024–256.2 km (3.8 miles)
Underground, metro or tramDerker (Manchester Metrolink)1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Oldham Mumps (Manchester Metrolink)1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Bus stops16 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 43 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Heywood Street Waterhead80 m
Bus or coach stationOldham Mumps Interchange1.7 km (1.1 miles)
Car parksCo-Op Grotton, Oldham Car Park2 km (1.3 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Be.EV Charging Station1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN25.9 km (16 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Springfield House270 m
Pharmacies10 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Well370 m
NHS dentists7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Jackson's Dental Care370 m
HospitalThe Royal Oldham Hospital2.8 km (1.8 miles)
Police stationGreater Manchester Police1.6 km (1 mile)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone700 m (0.4 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Waterhead Park 4.9 ha100 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 24 ha200 m
Play area7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 430 m²120 m
Playing field4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,300 m²290 m
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,820 m²180 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 29 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Greenacres Cemetery, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 570 m (0.4 miles) south. 7 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Greenacres CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II570 m (0.4 miles) south
Alexandra ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*2.4 km (1.5 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Greenacres HillHill500 m (0.3 miles) west
Lower Count HillHill820 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Lower Strinesdale ReservoirLake or reservoir1 km (0.6 miles) north-east
Higher Count HillHill1.1 km (0.7 miles) north
Strine DaleValley1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-east
The OrchardWood2.5 km (1.6 miles) south

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)12.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.4205
Particles (PM10)11.24015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
65 to 6970
60 to 6460
55 to 5910
Under 55519

14 of the street's 19 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Oldham: see them on the Oldham page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Littlemoor Primary SchoolPrimary3–11460 m (0.3 miles) Requires improvement (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Co-op Academy StrinesdaleSecondary11–16570 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Requires improvement
Greenacres Primary AcademyPrimary3–11790 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Exceptional; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Woodlands Primary AcademyPrimary2–11790 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Hey-with-Zion Primary School Church of England/MethodistPrimary3–11840 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
St Anne's RC Primary School, a Voluntary Academy Roman CatholicPrimary3–11850 m (0.5 miles) Requires improvement (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Edwards Roman Catholic Primary, a Voluntary AcademyPrimary3–11910 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Oasis Academy ClarksfieldPrimary3–11940 m (0.6 miles) Good (Apr 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Mayfield Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Requires improvement (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Theresa's RC Primary School, a Voluntary Academy Roman CatholicPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Willowpark Primary AcademyPrimary2–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
St Thomas' Leesfield CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Two Counties Service Station OL4 2HNRetailers - other100 m4 Good3 Apr 2024
The Lunch Box OL4 2HNTakeaway/sandwich shop100 m4 Good18 Aug 2026
The Old Plough Chippy OL4 2EXTakeaway/sandwich shop110 m5 Very good24 Sep 2026
Coach & Horses OL4 2HTPub/bar/nightclub130 m5 Very good28 Mar 2023
Go Local OL4 2HTRetailers - other150 mUnknown22 Sep 2026
Brooklands Day Nursery OL4 3EYHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises250 m5 Very good23 Sep 2022
Waterhead Sports & Social Club OL4 2HXPub/bar/nightclub250 m5 Very good15 Mar 2020
Veg In The Park (V.I.P) OL4 2HXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen250 m5 Very good21 Aug 2023
Shaz Mini Market OL4 2RJRetailers - other270 m5 Very good6 Sep 2024
Carrion Crow OL4 2RJPub/bar/nightclub270 m5 Very good1 Sep 2026
Bulls Head OL4 2HBPub/bar/nightclub280 m4 Good16 Sep 2026
Church Inn OL4 2JEPub/bar/nightclub300 m5 Very good16 Sep 2026
The Pie Shop Ltd OL4 2EARetailers - other320 m4 Good25 Nov 2025
MiChild @ Oberlin Street Nursery OL4 3ETHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises330 m5 Very good22 Jul 2026
Happy House OL4 2QZTakeaway/sandwich shop330 m5 Very good8 Sep 2026

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

No crimes recorded at anonymised points within 250 m in this period (northamptonshire).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 347 residents in 155 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age4440
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over25%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)31%61%
Owned outright16%33%
Shared ownership6%1%
Social rented52%17%
Private rented10%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work43%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)8%6%
Retired (of adults)28%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)12%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)16%32%
Travel to work by car or van61%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus7%8%
On foot or by bicycle10%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)79%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)16%34%
No qualifications41%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 2 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • OL4 2HP: 18 addresses of 19 in the postcode
  • OL4 2HH: 1 address of 7 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Stephenson Street · Ash Square · Cobden Street · Watergate Milne Court · Heywood Street · Linden Avenue · Cypress Road · Yew Crescent · Brideoake Street · Hague Street · Cotton Tree Close · Huddersfield Road

All the streets in OL4 and across Oldham.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.