Blue House is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 April 1988. A C17 House.

Blue House

WRENN ID
low-gargoyle-thyme
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Constituency
Broxbourne MP: Lewis Cocking (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 April 1988
Type
House
Address
Blue House, Pembridge Lane, Brickendon Liberty
OS grid reference
TL 339 070
Coordinates
51.74584, -0.06177
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Blue House is a house dating from the late 17th century, with renovations and a parallel rear extension added in the early 19th century, serving as a keeper's house and store. It features a timber frame on a low plastered sill, which is higher at the southeast corner, and is dark weatherboarded. The house has old red tile roofs that are steeply pitched, with the rear roof being narrower and extending down over an outshut at the northeast.

The building is two stories high and has a three-cell internal-chimney plan. It is set back from the road and faces south, with a lower and narrower parallel rear extension. The western part of this extension serves as an open barn or store. The chimney is located a third of the way from the eastern end, while the main entrance is positioned a third of the way from the western end.

The south front features three three-light flush casement windows that are horizontally divided, along with three similar but deeper windows on the ground floor. The window in the eastern bay is offset to the right, suggesting it was intended for a front entrance on its left. There is a plank door located in a gabled timber porch with bargeboards. Inside, the house has chamfered cross-beams and squared joists, and there is a door at the eastern end that leads into the kitchen.

Local climate

Blue House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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