Sandhills Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Sefton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 January 1986. Houses. 2 related planning applications.
Sandhills Cottages
- WRENN ID
- veiled-barrel-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sefton
- Constituency
- Sefton Central MP: Bill Esterson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 January 1986
- Type
- Houses
- Address
- Sandhills Cottages, Albert Road, Formby, L37 2EH
- OS grid reference
- SD 279 060
- Coordinates
- 53.54597, -3.08828
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sandhills Cottages are two houses built around 1880 by the architect A.H. Mackmurdo. The cottages feature roughcast walls and a tiled roof with half-hipped gables. Each house is two storeys high and has three bays. The garden front includes a timber verandah with undulating fascia boards and glazed ends, divided by a central partition. The windows are small-paned casements, and each house has central French windows with canted oriel windows above. There are three cross-axial stacks. The side returns have upper weathered boarding above a plaster band, and there is a 20th-century extension to the west.
At the rear, there is a central two-bay wing with a half-hipped gable. The flanking bays are weatherboarded and have a recessed ground floor, while the end bays feature tile-hung first floors. Porches with lean-to roofs are present at the returns of the rear wing. This building is a rare example of work by an important designer of the Arts and Crafts movement.
Local climate
Sandhills Cottages sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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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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