Heron Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Sefton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 November 1972. House.
Heron Cottage
- WRENN ID
- peeling-slate-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sefton
- Constituency
- Southport MP: Patrick Hurley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 November 1972
- Type
- House
- Address
- Heron Cottage, 24, Knob Hall Lane
- OS grid reference
- SD 357 192
- Coordinates
- 53.66606, -2.97422
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Heron Cottage is a house that likely dates from the late 17th century or early 18th century. It has been altered and extended at the rear in 1981. The exterior features white painted render, probably over brick, and a thatched roof that is hipped at the right-hand end. The building has a single-depth, two-unit plan and includes a 20th-century wing at the rear.
The exterior is a single storey with a late 20th-century attic added. It has a three-window range with renewed sliding sash windows consisting of three lights, two lights, and three lights, along with a very shallow eyebrow attic window that has been inserted in the roof over the left bay. The interior has not been inspected. Heron Cottage forms a group with the adjoining properties No.26 and No.28.
Local climate
Heron 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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