Blue Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Rother local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1989. Pair of cottages. 3 related planning applications.

Blue Cottage

WRENN ID
gaunt-clay-nightshade
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Rother
Constituency
Hastings and Rye MP: Helena Dollimore (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 June 1989
Type
Pair of cottages
Address
Blue Cottage, Randolph Lane, Playden, TN31 7PR
OS grid reference
TQ 916 232
Coordinates
50.9765, 0.72818
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Blue Cottage is a pair of cottages that have been combined into one house, dated 1794 and altered over time. The building features a rendered plinth, weatherboard that is battered at the base, and a brick outshut. It has a plain tile roof and stands two storeys tall with a symmetrical elevation consisting of paired two-bay cottages. The rear includes a 20th-century outshut. Each former cottage has a doorway, now fitted with part-glazed, small-pane, 20th-century double doors, and a window to the outside, along with two windows on the first floor. All windows are 20th-century wooden casements with two lights and small panes, and the ground floor openings have pentices. A 20th-century date plaque is located at the center of the first floor. A central corniced brick ridge stack with four flues is present. To the right side, there is a 20th-century porch with a part-glazed board door that protects the current entrance. At the rear, a catslide roof over the outshut is interrupted to the left of center by a 20th-century tile-hung gable. Inside, the cottage features stop-chamfered cross-beams and brick fireplaces. In the early 19th century, the building served as the Parish Poor House.

Local climate

Blue Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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
  • Sale history — 5 transactions since 1995
  • Related listed building consents — 3 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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