Formby House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Sefton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 January 1986. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Formby House Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- nether-stair-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sefton
- Constituency
- Sefton Central MP: Bill Esterson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 January 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Formby House Farmhouse, Southport Old Road, L37 0AB
- OS grid reference
- SD 311 104
- Coordinates
- 53.58592, -3.04098
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Formby House Farmhouse is an early 18th-century farmhouse that has undergone some alterations. It features a roughcast exterior and a slate roof, standing two storeys high with three bays. The windows are fitted with 20th-century casements, and there is a gabled half-dormer on the first floor above the second and third bays. The entrance, located between the second and third bays, includes a 20th-century porch. The building has corner buttresses and three gable-end and cross-axial stacks. At the rear, there are some horizontally sliding sash windows. Inside, the farmhouse boasts chamfered beams and wide-boarded doors with strap hinges on lugs.
Local climate
Formby House Farmhouse 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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