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RANDOM COTTAGE, GREENMOUNT LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1388049
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Random Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- RANDOM COTTAGE, GREENMOUNT LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1388049
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Apr-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Random Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- RANDOM COTTAGE, GREENMOUNT LANE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- RANDOM COTTAGE, GREENMOUNT LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bolton (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 69009 09700
Details
BOLTON
SD60NE GREENMOUNT LANE 797-1/3/102 (West side (off)) 26/04/74 Random Cottage (Formerly Listed as: GREENMOUNT LANE Random Cottage. Stonehouse Farmhouse. Barn and Stables to east)
II*
Farmhouse, now cottage and outbuilding. Probably C16 (believed to be dated 1541). Coursed and squared stone with stone flagged roof. EXTERIOR AND PLAN: 2 storey. The cottage has a 2 unit plan, with entrance into hall. Doorway flanked by 4-light mullioned window to left, and 6-light mullioned and transomed window to right, both with hoodmoulds. Mullioned windows of 2 and 4 lights above. To the right of the cottage, the present outbuilding may once also have been in domestic use. Blocked doorway to its left (cut by a buttress), and present doorway with 4-light mullioned window alongside. Rough stone in gable end suggests that the building formerly extended further to east. INTERIOR: not inspected.
Listing NGR: SD6900909700
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476047
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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