Are There Exact Black Hole Solutions in Non-Asymptotically Flat Spacetimes?

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Are there any EXACT solutions similar to Schwarzschild or Kerr in a spacetime which is not asymptotically flat; e.g. FLRW or other cosmological metrics? I am already familiar with the "Swiss cheese" approximations.
 
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We also have exact solutions for the 4 basic black holes in asymptotically de Sitter or anti de Sitter spacetimes. De Sitter spacetime corresponds to eternal inflation.
 
Isn't "Swiss Cheese" exactly what you want? A single hole version of this is the classic paper "Conformal Structure of a Schwarzschild Black Hole Immersed in a Friedman Universe" by Sussman ("General Relativity and Gravitation, Vol. 17, No. 3, 1985) Abstract:

The evolution of a Schwarzschild black hole in an expanding Friedman universe is described using the same coordinate patch for both geometries. Comoving and extended Kruskal coordinates are considered and compared for the cases k = 0 and k = 1. The conformal structure and some global topological aspects of the Schwarzschild-Friedman system are examined with the help of diagrams in comoving and extended Kruskal coordinates.