Blue Barns Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1987. House. 7 related planning applications.
Blue Barns Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- gentle-balcony-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tendring
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Blue Barns Farmhouse, Old Ipswich Road, Ardleigh, CO7 7QL
- OS grid reference
- TM 028 301
- Coordinates
- 51.93287, 0.94933
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Blue Barns Farmhouse is an 18th-century house, potentially incorporating earlier fabric. It is constructed of red brick with a red plain tiled gambrel roof and has chimney stacks on the right and left sides. The house is two storeys high with attics, and a rear range features two flat-headed dormers. The front elevation has a three-window arrangement of tripartite small-paned vertically sliding sashes; the ground-floor windows have segmental heads, and there is a single light above the central doorway. A two-panel, four-light door is set within a moulded surround with a frieze. A date plaque, “T BB 1803,” is located on the right return gable.
Local climate
Blue Barns Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 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 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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 — 4 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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