Blue House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1975. A Georgian Farmhouse.
Blue House Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- sacred-jade-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- Maldon MP: Sir John Whittingdale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1975
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Blue House Farmhouse, Gay Bowers Road, Danbury
- OS grid reference
- TL 794 042
- Coordinates
- 51.70851, 0.59613
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Blue House Farmhouse is an early 18th century timber-framed and plastered house featuring a weatherboarded front. The building has two storeys and attics, with a three-window range that includes casements with leaded lights from the 20th century. The doorway is topped with a cornice hood supported by brackets. The roof is tiled and includes one hipped dormer on the front.
Local climate
Blue House Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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