White Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Sefton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1966. House. 1 related planning application.
White Cottage
- WRENN ID
- little-latch-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sefton
- Constituency
- Sefton Central MP: Bill Esterson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1966
- Type
- House
- Address
- White Cottage, 5, Massam's Lane, Formby, L37 7BD
- OS grid reference
- SD 294 085
- Coordinates
- 53.56874, -3.0669
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
White Cottage is a house dating to the 17th century, with alterations made since. The exterior is roughcast with a thatched roof. It is one storey high, consisting of two bays, with the left bay slightly taller and containing an attic. The windows are 3-light horizontally sliding sash windows with glazing bars. The entrance is located in the second bay. A timber gutter runs along the roof. The returns also feature horizontally sliding sash windows with glazing bars; the left return includes two attic windows, and a corbelled gabled stack. A stack is positioned behind the ridge in the second bay. There is also a rear wing.
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 — 1 transaction since 2003
- 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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