6, School Lane, Formby is a Grade II listed building in the Sefton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1966. A 18th century Schoolhouse, restaurant.
6, School Lane, Formby
- WRENN ID
- winter-entrance-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sefton
- Constituency
- Sefton Central MP: Bill Esterson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1966
- Type
- Schoolhouse, restaurant
- OS grid reference
- SD 299 073
- Coordinates
- 53.55763, -3.05919
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 6 School Lane in Formby is a former schoolhouse, now a restaurant, built in 1785. The building is constructed of brick and features a 20th-century reconstituted stone slate roof. It is a single storey with three bays, including a gabled extension at the first bay. There is a porch with a lean-to roof situated between the second and third bays. The windows have segmental heads and small-paned casements. At the rear, there is an extension, and the building has a cross-axial stack. Inside, there are two crude fish-bone trusses with through purlins supported by triangular buttresses.
Local climate
6, School Lane, Formby 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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