Village Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Sefton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1952. Farmhouse, cottage, barn.
Village Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- ghost-chamber-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sefton
- Constituency
- Sefton Central MP: Bill Esterson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1952
- Type
- Farmhouse, cottage, barn
- Address
- Village Farmhouse, 25, Little Crosby Road
- OS grid reference
- SD 318 014
- Coordinates
- 53.50507, -3.02826
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Village Farmhouse is a farmhouse with an attached cottage and barn, now combined as a house and store. The house is dated 1669 on the lintel of its doorway, while the former barn is likely from the 18th century and has been altered. The house is constructed of large blocks of sandstone ashlar, now strap-pointed at the first floor, and features a stone slate roof and a brick chimney. The former barn is made of white-painted brick, also with a stone slate roof and a brick chimney. The house has a two-unit end-baffle-entry plan, and the former barn is attached to the south gable wall.
The exterior of the house consists of two low storeys and two windows, with a chamfered plinth and a continuous cavetto-moulded drip-band at the ground floor. There is a Tudor-arched doorway to the left with a chamfered surround, a large lintel inscribed with "I E / 1669," and a drip-band stepped above it. The ground floor features double-chamfered stone mullion windows with five and three lights, while the upper floor has three-light windows. Both gables have stone copings, and there is a rebuilt brick chimney on the left side. The attached range on the left, also two storeys high, has 20th-century windows on each floor in the bay next to the house, with more scattered windows beyond.
Inside, the former longitudinal partition of the service end has been removed. Collectively, all the buildings in the Little Crosby Conservation Area create a valuable group with similar scale but varied dates, materials, and styles.
Local climate
Village Farmhouse 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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