Oxford Street, Douglas, Isle Of Man
Description
Spacious Five-Bedroom End-of-Terrace Town House Situated in a convenient residential location close to the amenities of Douglas, 4 Oxford Street is a bright and spacious five-bedroom end-of-terrace town house offering generous and versatile accommodation throughout. The property provides four well-proportioned double bedrooms and one single bedroom, making it an ideal home for families or those requiring additional space for guests, working from home or hobbies. The end-of-terrace position helps create a light and airy feel throughout the property. The ground floor benefits from two separate reception rooms, providing excellent flexibility for modern living. These spaces could be used as comfortable living and dining areas, a family room, home office or additional entertaining space, depending on individual requirements. A large family bathroom provides both comfort and practicality, featuring a walk-in shower and a generously sized bath, offering the best of both options. To the rear is a private patio area, thoughtfully arranged for alfresco dining and outdoor entertaining. It provides a pleasant space to enjoy meals outside, relax with friends or make the most of the warmer months. A major benefit of the property is the separate double garage located to the rear. In addition to secure parking, the garage provides excellent additional storage and could accommodate bicycles, tools, equipment or hobbies, offering valuable flexibility for a busy household. The property is conveniently located for access to Douglas town centre and its extensive range of amenities, including shops, cafés, restaurants, schools and local services. Combining generous bedroom accommodation, two reception rooms, a spacious bathroom, private outdoor space and a substantial double garage, 4 Oxfor
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Nearby
- SchoolSaint Thomas' Church of England School0.30 mi · 6 min walk · 1 min drive
- Nursery / pre-schoolUnnamed nursery0.27 mi · 6 min walk · 1 min drive
- GP surgeryFinch Hill Health Centre0.37 mi · 8 min walk · 1 min drive
- PharmacyClear Pharmacy0.08 mi · 2 min walk · 0 min drive
- DentistWoodbourne Dental 360.05 mi · 1 min walk · 0 min drive
- SupermarketAsia's Best Choice0.56 mi · 12 min walk · 2 min drive
- PubThe Rosemount0.14 mi · 3 min walk · 0 min drive
- RestaurantTerrace Chippy Diner0.07 mi · 1 min walk · 0 min drive
- CaféPestle and Mortar0.12 mi · 3 min walk · 0 min drive
- Petrol stationWessex Garage0.37 mi · 8 min walk · 1 min drive
- AirportIsle of Man Airport9.9 mi · 32 min drive
- BeachDouglas Beach0.77 mi · 17 min walk · 2 min drive
- Park or gardenWoodburn Square0.09 mi · 2 min walk · 0 min drive
Nearest match in each category, from the island place register (OpenStreetMap plus local sources) — a broad list, not a guarantee that every business is included. Distances are straight-line ("as the crow flies"), multiplied by 1.3 to approximate real road-network distance — this is an estimate, not turn-by-turn routing, and actual walking/driving routes may differ. Times assume constant average speeds appropriate to the Isle of Man's roads and 25/35mph limits: walking 4.5 km/h, cycling 14 km/h, driving 30 km/h — not open-road speeds, and they don't account for traffic, parking or terrain.
Masts nearby
- Mobile phone mastSure0.38 miles away
- Mobile phone mastManx Telecom0.38 miles away
- Communication mastUnnamed on the map0.59 miles away
- Mobile phone mastManx Telecom0.82 miles away
Read this before drawing a conclusion. These are masts mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors — 38 communication structures for the whole island, 29 of them tagged as carrying a mobile network. The operators run considerably more sites than that, so a mast not shown here is not evidence there isn't one. There is no official Isle of Man mast register to check against: Ofcom's Sitefinder never covered the island and the Communications Commission publishes no list. Nothing in this data says which generation a mast carries, so none of it can tell you whether a site is 5G.
What the numbers on this listing say
- New to this site 4 days ago. Little negotiating history has built up yet.
- Freehold. The most straightforward tenure to buy and to lend against. Tenure is as declared by the agent; have your advocate confirm it against the register.
Assembled from this site's own record of the listing and the Isle of Man Government sold-price register. It deliberately makes no recommendation and no valuation — it reports what is measurable and leaves the judgement to you.
What this purchase costs beyond the asking price
Duty is estimated on the higher of purchase price and market value. Chargeable amounts in each band are rounded up to £1,000 units, with a £250 minimum. Registration and other professional fees are additional. Three categories exist: owner-occupier (0% on the first £230,000 (subject to the £250 minimum), 1% to £500,000, 2% above) — £980 here; resident but not owner-occupier, a second home or a let (2%, 2.5% above £3m) — £6,560; and non-resident (4%, 4.5% above £3m) — £13,120. Which one you fall into is a question about you, not about the property, and the Registry decides it. Scale set by the Land, Deeds and Probate Registries (Fees and Duties) Order 2023, in force 1 May 2023 — check the Central Registry's own calculator or ask your advocate for the figure that actually applies. This site is not a tax adviser and takes no fee from anyone named on this page.
What it would cost each month
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Getting connected
Four providers sell residential broadband on the island: Manx Telecom, Sure, Wi-Manx, BlueWave Communications. Manx Telecom owns and operates the fixed network the others largely resell, so what is physically available at an address is usually a Manx Telecom question whoever ends up billing you.
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What would improving it be worth?
Value added is the extra floor area priced at £2,412/m² — the midpoint asking price per m² among 6 Douglas properties currently for sale that publish a floor area. Cost uses real Isle of Man build rates: £4,000–£6,000/m² new build and £2,000–£4,000/m² refurbishment, depending on quality. Net is against the mid rate. The last column is how often Isle of Man actually grants that kind of application.
| Improvement | Value it might add | Likely cost | Net | Granted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Add a bedroom (single-storey extension) A modest double plus circulation, built new. ~14 m² |
£33,775 | £52,500 14 m² · mid spec new build range £42,000–£63,000 |
−£18,725 | 0% (305) |
| Loft conversion with a bedroom Works inside an existing roof, so it prices as refurbishment rather than new build — which is why it usually wins. ~20 m² |
£48,250 | £41,000 20 m² · mid spec refurb range £33,000–£50,000 |
+£7,250 | 0% (46) |
| Two-storey extension Roughly 14 m² on each of two floors. ~28 m² |
£67,550 | £105,000 28 m² · mid spec new build range £84,000–£126,000 |
−£37,450 | 0% (66) |
| Garage, annexe or outbuilding Detached space is worth less per m² than main-house floor area. ~18 m² |
£26,055 | £67,500 18 m² · mid spec new build range £54,000–£81,000 |
−£41,445 | 0% (196) |
Two things it cannot see. First, it prices floor area at the local average rate — it doesn't know your plot, your roof, your outlook, or whether an extension is physically possible; nor whether your street has a ceiling price that no amount of extending beats. Second, the rate comes from asking prices of other properties currently for sale, because the Isle of Man's sold register records no floor areas at all — so it reflects what sellers ask, not what buyers paid.
The obvious alternative method is worse, which is why it isn't used here: comparing a typical 3-bed with a typical 4-bed suggests a bedroom is worth around £430,000 island-wide. It isn't — a 4-bed is generally a bigger house on a bigger plot, so that figure measures the mix of what's for sale, not the value of adding a room.
Before spending anything, get a builder's quote and talk to an architect — what work of this kind actually gets approved here shows how often applications like yours succeed, and on what grounds the refusals go.
Building work on this property
Same estimate model this site uses on its planning pages (UK cost ranges with the Isle of Man's 18% uplift) — a rough starting point, not a quote. Always get quotes from an Isle of Man builder before budgeting.
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Sale history
| Sale date | Price | At 2026 prices | Address on register |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-07-11 | £247,000 | £269,560 +9% | 2 Oxford Street Douglas IM1 3JF |
| 2024-05-07 | £275,000 | £300,118 +9% | 11 Oxford Street Douglas IM1 3JD |
| 2023-06-15 | £182,000 | £202,898 +11% | 7 Oxford Street Douglas IM1 3JD |
| 2023-04-05 | £321,150 | £358,026 +11% | 15 Oxford Street Douglas IM1 3JD |
| 2023-03-17 | £300,000 | £334,447 +11% | 5 Oxford Street Douglas IM1 3JD |
Matched by house name/street and parish against the Isle of Man Land Registry's transaction register — not a unique-ID lookup, so a shared house name could span more than one property. The "2026 prices" column carries each price forward at the island-wide repeat-sales index — it is what that sum of money would be at today's market level, not a valuation of this property, and it takes no account of the condition it was in then or any work done since.
Planning history
| Application | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 20/00017/LAW | Application for certificate of Lawful Development for installation of a roof light | Pending Application details Look up 20/00017/LAW on the official register |
| 14/00169/B | Erection of first floor extension over existing rear kitchen extension | Permitted Application details Look up 14/00169/B on the official register |
| 11/00720/B | Installation of replacement windows to front elevation | Permitted Application details Look up 11/00720/B on the official register |
Matched by house name/street and parish against Isle of Man planning applications decided between 4 Jan 2011 and 29 Dec 2023 (the government published no 2017 files, so that year is absent) — coverage is partial and not a unique-ID lookup. No bare decision date is available in this data, so the application number (which embeds its year) is shown instead. Where a "Worked on by" name appears, it's a known architect or surveyor cross-referenced by the same application number — worth a call before commissioning a fresh survey.
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Estimated cost of live planning permissions
Isle of Man planning permissions lapse 3 years after grant if unbuilt; these applications fall inside that window and were not refused, so they are presumptively still capable of being implemented.
- 20/00017/LAW — Re-roofing
£14,160–£29,500Application for certificate of Lawful Development for installation of a roof light - 14/00169/B — Two-storey extension
£106,200–£177,000Erection of first floor extension over existing rear kitchen extension - 11/00720/B — Window / door replacement
£9,440–£23,600Installation of replacement windows to front elevation
The work type shown is inferred automatically from the wording of the planning application's own description — it isn't stated by the applicant. The base cost range comes from published UK national renovation/build-cost guides for that type of project, with an 18% uplift for the Isle of Man. That uplift is not a guess: AtkinsRealis's July 2026 interim report for the Isle of Man Treasury puts Manx construction costs 18% above the UK average — joint 16th most expensive place to build on the BCIS rankings, comparable with Outer London — driven by imported materials with no local competition and a shortage of skilled trades. Figures exclude VAT at 20% and professional fees, typically 12–18%. These figures are indicative only, not a quote: actual cost depends on specification, finish, ground conditions and the contractor. For anything serious, get a quote from a local quantity surveyor or builder.
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