Crostons Brow, Second Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Sefton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1999. House.
Crostons Brow, Second Cottage
- WRENN ID
- fallen-chalk-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sefton
- Constituency
- Southport MP: Patrick Hurley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1999
- Type
- House
- Address
- Crostons Brow, Second Cottage, Knob Hall Lane
- OS grid reference
- SD 359 193
- Coordinates
- 53.66641, -2.97097
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Croston's Brow: Second Cottage is a house, likely built in the 18th century, that has been altered and extended. It features white painted render, probably over brick, and has a steeply-pitched slate roof. The building has a single-depth, three-bay plan with an additional one-bay extension to the left.
The exterior is a single storey with a five-window range. The original three-bay section includes a small gabled porch offset to the right, with two windows on the left and one on the right. All windows are 20th-century, slightly bowed, two-light casements with glazing bars. There is a ridge chimney offset to the left. The two-window extension to the left has one similar window and one altered window, and its roof has a shallower pitch.
The interior has not been inspected. This cottage is a recognizable example of a type of dwelling that was once common in the area and forms a group with First Cottage and Nos 1, 3, and 4 Cotty's Brow.
Local climate
Crostons Brow, Second Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,310 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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