Blue Barn Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1987. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Blue Barn Cottage
- WRENN ID
- hushed-wall-moon
- 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
- Cottage
- Address
- Blue Barn Cottage, Harts Lane, Ardleigh, CO7 7QL
- OS grid reference
- TM 027 302
- Coordinates
- 51.93343, 0.94838
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Blue Barn Cottage is a cottage that likely dates from the 18th century. It has a timber frame and is covered with 20th-century parget plaster. The roof is thatched, and there is a red brick chimney stack located off-center to the left. The cottage is one storey with attics and features two 20th-century small paned casement windows on the left side. There is also a flat roof extension on the left, which includes a 20th-century door on the return.
Local climate
Blue Barn Cottage 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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