White Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Sefton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 June 1984. House. 4 related planning applications.
White Cottage
- WRENN ID
- low-cupola-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sefton
- Constituency
- Sefton Central MP: Bill Esterson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 June 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- White Cottage, 53, Gores Lane, Formby, L37 3NU
- OS grid reference
- SD 296 078
- Coordinates
- 53.5629, -3.06405
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
White Cottage is an 18th-century house with later additions, located on the west side of Gores Lane, Formby. It is constructed of limewashed brick with a thatched roof. The original part of the house is a one-story, three-bay structure with an attic, and it has a one-bay extension to the left return and a rear outshut. The roof has slate coped gables. The ground-floor windows are mostly three-light, horizontally-sliding sashes, with one window of two lights to the eyebrow dormer. The property features three gable-end stacks and one cross-axial stack. The front entrance has a plank door. Internally, there are two cruck trusses.
Local climate
White Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,240 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 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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 — 2 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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