Random Cottage is a Grade II* listed building in the Bolton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1974. A Medieval Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Random Cottage
- WRENN ID
- errant-gallery-bracken
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Bolton
- Constituency
- Bolton West MP: Phil Brickell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1974
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Random Cottage, Greenmount Lane, BL1 5JE
- OS grid reference
- SD 690 097
- Coordinates
- 53.58299, -2.46958
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Random Cottage is a probable 16th-century farmhouse, believed to date to 1541, now used as a cottage and with associated outbuildings. It is constructed of coursed and squared stone with a stone flagged roof. The cottage has a two-unit plan, with an entrance into a hall. The front elevation features a doorway flanked by a four-light mullioned window to the left and a six-light mullioned and transomed window to the right, both with hoodmoulds. Above, there are mullioned windows of two and four lights. To the right of the cottage, an outbuilding stands, which may have once been used domestically. A blocked doorway to its left has been cut by a buttress, and a present doorway is accompanied by a four-light mullioned window. Rough stone in the gable end suggests a former eastward extension of the building. The interior was not inspected.
Local climate
Random Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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