1, Bluecoat Yard is a Grade II* listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1950. A Post-Medieval House. 2 related planning applications.
1, Bluecoat Yard
- WRENN ID
- eastward-clay-furze
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1950
- Type
- House
- Period
- Post-Medieval
- Address
- 1, Bluecoat Yard, Ware, SG12 9HL
- OS grid reference
- TL 359 143
- Coordinates
- 51.81121, -0.03003
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The house at 1 Bluecoat Yard dates to the 16th century and was remodelled in the late 17th century. It is timber-framed and has a plastered, pebbledashed, and colourwashed exterior. The roof is tiled with a gabled casement dormer, and features a coved plaster eaves cornice. The building is two stories high with attics. There are three-light flush casement windows on both the ground and first floors, and a flush panelled door within an architrave surround, with a weatherboard head above it, on the left. The structure of the house predates the acquisition of the Bluecoat Yard buildings by Christ's Hospital in 1685, but the late 17th-century remodelling likely served as ‘nurse cottages’ for the school’s pupils, alongside numbers 2 and the newly built numbers 3-12. It shares its structural framework with the north bay of The Old Stables.
Local climate
1, Bluecoat Yard sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 1995
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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