Boots Cottage, Bank Top is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1967. House, garage. 3 related planning applications.
Boots Cottage, Bank Top
- WRENN ID
- worn-obsidian-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oldham
- Constituency
- Oldham East and Saddleworth MP: Debbie Abrahams (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1967
- Type
- House, garage
- Address
- Boots Cottage, Bank Top, Running Hill Gate, Saddleworth, OL3 6LW
- OS grid reference
- SE 007 062
- Coordinates
- 53.55295, -1.98992
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Boots Cottage, located on Bank Top, is a house that has been converted into a garage. It features a lintel dated "1633" and is constructed from hammer-dressed stone, coursed rubble, and watershot stone, topped with a graduated stone slate roof. The building is a 2-bay, single-depth structure with two storeys, and a later barn has been added to the left side. The corners of the house are marked by quoins.
To the right of the building, there is a door with a lintel that has a double-quirked bead and the carved date. On the left side, two garage doors have been inserted. The first floor has two 3-light recessed flat-faced stone mullion windows. The gable chimney stack has been rebuilt in brick.
The barn features a cart entry with a massive stone lintel, a door to the left, quoins, and a winnowing door at the rear. There are two blocked windows on the gable. The rear of the building shows the remains of a 2-light double-chamfered mullion window and a 2-light flat-faced mullion window.
Local climate
Boots Cottage, Bank Top sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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 — 1 transaction since 2002
- 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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