White Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Lancashire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 October 1968. A Early Modern Farmhouse, cottage. 1 related planning application.
White Cottage
- WRENN ID
- hushed-fireplace-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Lancashire
- Constituency
- West Lancashire MP: Ashley Dalton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 October 1968
- Type
- Farmhouse, cottage
- Period
- Early Modern
- Address
- White Cottage, 23 and 25, Hall Road, Scarisbrick, L40 9QB
- OS grid reference
- SD 392 132
- Coordinates
- 53.61269, -2.91986
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
White Cottage is a farmhouse that has been converted into two cottages, likely dating from the 17th century or earlier, with some alterations. The building features a cruck frame that is now clad in later brick, rendered, and painted white, topped with a corrugated sheet roof. It has a rectangular plan consisting of three and a half bays, with a staggered partition dividing the two dwellings in the center.
The structure is single-storey with low eaves. Cottage No. 23, on the left, has a central board door aligned with the ridge chimney, a small two-light casement window in the left end bay, and a two-light sliding sash window with glazing bars in the second bay on the right. Cottage No. 25, on the right, features a board door at the right-hand end, aligned with the gable chimney, a small two-light sliding sash window in the third bay, and a larger three-light sliding sash window with glazing bars in the fourth bay. Both gable walls have inserted windows, and the rear of the building has various additions, including a link to a modern extension of No. 23, which is not included in the listing. The gable of No. 23 is covered with sheeting similar to the roof.
Inside, there are four full cruck trusses of light scantling, including one at the gable end of No. 25 and another at the junction with the half bay at the left end of No. 23. This half bay is the hipped west end of the building and was formerly axially partitioned. All trusses have curved windbraces below the purlins, although the first truss is missing the lower part of the rear blade.
Local climate
White Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,220 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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 1995
- 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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- Scarisbrick Hall at 392 127
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