Garswood is a Grade II listed building in the Sefton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 January 1986. House. 3 related planning applications.
Garswood
- WRENN ID
- outer-porch-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sefton
- Constituency
- Sefton Central MP: Bill Esterson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 January 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Garswood, 8, Barkfield Lane, Formby, L37 3JN
- OS grid reference
- SD 290 077
- Coordinates
- 53.5617, -3.0719
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Garswood is a house built in the 1830s, located on Barkfield Lane in Formby. The building is made of stucco and has a slate roof. It stands two storeys high and features four bays, with a conservatory and a peacock house to the left, as well as a stable wing at the rear. The end bays project forward under gables and are accented with rusticated quoins. The house has a cornice and a blocking course, while the gables are finished with plain bargeboards.
The windows are sashed with architraves and lack glazing bars. The end bays have canted bay windows with casements on the ground floor, and the first-floor windows in the end bays are adorned with enriched friezes, cornices, and cartouches above. The entrance, located in the third bay, features a half-glazed doorcase and door. A cast iron verandah runs between the canted bay windows, supported by five twisted columns that hold up segmental arches, with enriched spandrels, a cornice, and cresting.
The house has two brick chimney stacks. The peacock house includes a gable and an entrance with an architrave and an enriched pediment. Flanking round-headed windows have archivolts, keys, and pediments. The stable wing is roughcast with stucco dressings, featuring an enriched frieze and cornice, timbered gablets over the first-floor windows, and a small turret with louvres and a small spire.
Local climate
Garswood 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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- 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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