A well furnished one room basement flat with a small but well equipped separate kitchen and plenty of lamps, attaches to the hosts house with its own side entrance that is reasonably quiet. The room itself is reasonably spacious.
The room only has one window in the door with no curtain, but you can completely open it for air and there is a porch outside with frosted glass, which was bright enough form me in summer but your mileage may vary.
The property is quite well located. The 50 bus is 3 minutes walk away and goes into Manchester in 20 minutes or so and 6 minutes walk away you have curry mile with a lot of shops and eateries that open late and the main bus route into the city and goes past the University. The area is green and leafy. It was perfectly adequate for my month long working holiday.
The Internet was good enough for my morning work video conferences.