Carfax is a Grade II* listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1952. House. 1 related planning application.
Carfax
- WRENN ID
- ruined-tracery-shade
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Liverpool
- Constituency
- Liverpool Wavertree MP: Paula Barker (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 June 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Carfax, St Michael's Church Road, L17 7BD
- OS grid reference
- SJ 368 870
- Coordinates
- 53.37656, -2.95044
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house, formerly known as The Nunnery, built before 1815 for the ironfounder John Cragg. It is a two-storey, two-bay building with projecting two-storey canted bays. The front elevation is now pebbledashed. A flat cornice runs along the top of the building, and the parapet of the canted bay is decorated with blind quatrefoils. The windows are iron casements, with the upper windows featuring diamond panes, and each has a label mould above. The right return side has a varied arrangement of windows, some of which are original iron casements.
Local climate
Carfax sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 78 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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