May Cottage
May Cottage, 15A, Green Lane, Formby, L37 7DJ
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1075897
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jul-1966
- List Entry Name:
- May Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- May Cottage, 15A, Green Lane, Formby, L37 7DJ
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- Date:
- 2007-08-02
- Reference:
- IOE01/16753/26
- Rights:
- © Mr Ronald May. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1075897
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jul-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- May Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- May Cottage, 15A, Green Lane, Formby, L37 7DJ
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- May Cottage, 15A, Green Lane, Formby, L37 7DJ
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Sefton (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Formby
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 29962 08135
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 24/05/2018
SD 20 NE
2/36
FORMBY
GREEN LANE (west side)
No. 15A (May Cottage)
(Formerly listed as May Cottage)
19.7.66
II
House. Possibly C17 (incised date in interior: 1620). Cruck-framed; Roughcast with slate roof. One storey with attic, three bays, with added C20 cross wing to west. Windows mostly two-light casements, with one horizontally sliding sash to left of entrance; another entrance to right. Left return has entrance with window above, projecting stack to left and battered buttresses to right. One flat topped dormer and stack behind ridge.
Interior has two cruck trusses truncated, with collars and short king posts. Chamfered beams to ground floor and ingle nook and cambered opening to stair, to central room.
Listing NGR: SD2996208135
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 216433
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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