Blue Barnes Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1975. House. 1 related planning application.
Blue Barnes Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- kindled-attic-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- Blue Barnes Farmhouse, Gubbion's Green Road, Great and Little Leighs, CM3 1PS
- OS grid reference
- TL 739 177
- Coordinates
- 51.83122, 0.52369
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Blue Barns Farmhouse is a 16th-century timber-framed house, originally plastered. It was altered in the 19th century and subsequently renovated in the 20th century. The house is two storeys high with a three-window front, featuring modern casement windows. The ground floor has two bays. The roof is tiled and has a small gablet at the south end. The interior retains exposed timber framing, ceiling beams and joists, and some original windows with diamond mullions, although these are now blocked.
Local climate
Blue Barnes Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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