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

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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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