May Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Sefton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1966. A Early Modern House.
May Cottage
- WRENN ID
- open-spire-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sefton
- Constituency
- Sefton Central MP: Bill Esterson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1966
- Type
- House
- Period
- Early Modern
- Address
- May Cottage, 15a, Green Lane, Formby, L37 7DJ
- OS grid reference
- SD 299 081
- Coordinates
- 53.56515, -3.05894
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
May Cottage is a house that may date back to the 17th century, with an incised date of 1620 found in the interior. It features a cruck frame and is roughcast with a slate roof. The building has one storey with an attic and consists of three bays, along with a 20th-century cross wing added to the west. The windows are mostly two-light casements, with one horizontally sliding sash located to the left of the entrance and another entrance to the right. The left side of the building has an entrance with a window above it, a projecting stack to the left, and battered buttresses to the right. There is one flat-topped dormer and a stack located behind the ridge.
Inside, the house has two truncated cruck trusses with collars and short king posts. The ground floor features chamfered beams, an ingle nook, and a cambered opening leading to the stair in the central room.
Local climate
May 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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