18 and 20, Little Crosby Road is a Grade II listed building in the Sefton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 1973. Farmhouse, cottage.
18 and 20, Little Crosby Road
- WRENN ID
- woven-storey-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sefton
- Constituency
- Sefton Central MP: Bill Esterson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1973
- Type
- Farmhouse, cottage
- Address
- 18 and 20, Little Crosby Road, L23 4TS
- OS grid reference
- SD 319 014
- Coordinates
- 53.50512, -3.02787
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
18 and 20 Little Crosby Road is a farmhouse and cottage, likely built in the late 17th century, with some rebuilding in the 18th or 19th century and various alterations. The building features large dressed sandstone blocks on the ground floor and brick above, all painted white, with a gable wall made of coursed sandstone rubble and quoins. It has a stone slate roof and brick chimneys. The structure has a three-unit, one-and-a-half depth plan with a rear outshut.
The exterior consists of two low storeys with two windows on one side and one on the other, along with a chamfered plinth. Between the second and third bays, there are two doorways; the left one has a chamfered surround and a Tudor-arched lintel, while the right one, which was once similar, is now blocked with old stone. No. 18 features a three-light window on each floor, while No. 20 has ground floor windows with three and five lights, and three-light windows above. All these windows have chamfered wooden mullions, except for the ground floor window of No. 18, which has stone mullions. There is a small oval plaque on the first floor of No. 20 indicating "Conservation Area." The ridge chimney aligns with the doorway of No. 20, and No. 18 has a rebuilt gable chimney. The right-hand gable wall of No. 18 has a lean-to with a doorway at the south end and a former doorway on the first floor with a Tudor-arched lintel.
Inside, No. 20 contains a large 17th-century inglenook fireplace with a moulded bressumer beam and a chamfered spine beam, along with an inserted partition at the lower end to create a passage and two service rooms. The upper floor of No. 18 was previously used as a granary. Collectively, the buildings in the Little Crosby Conservation Area form a valuable group with similar scale but varied dates, materials, and styles.
Local climate
18 and 20, Little Crosby Road sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% 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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