Top o'th' Knotts Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Bolton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 August 1986. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Top o'th' Knotts Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- north-steel-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bolton
- Constituency
- Bolton North East MP: Kirith Entwistle (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 August 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Top o'th' Knotts Farmhouse, Tottington Road, BL2 4LL
- OS grid reference
- SD 749 131
- Coordinates
- 53.61396, -2.38082
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Top o'th' Knotts Farmhouse is a farmhouse built in the late 17th century, with the roof raised in the late 18th century. A date stone on the building reads: "ROBERT AND / MARY HASLAM / 1784". The structure is made of dressed stone with quoins and features a slate roof and brick stacks. It has two storeys and four bays.
On the ground floor, there are casement windows in the first and third bays, with the third bay previously serving as an entrance. The second and fourth bays have windows with label moulds; the second bay features a four-light single-chamfered mullion window, while the fourth bay has a casement window. The first floor has a casement window, and the second bay has a flat-faced-mullioned window with four lights. There are plain entrances in the first and second bays. The farmhouse has gable-end and cross-axial stacks. At the rear, there is a later outshut and a four-light double-chamfered-mullioned window.
Local climate
Top o'th' Knotts Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 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 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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