Blue House Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 March 1987. House. 2 related planning applications.
Blue House Cottages
- WRENN ID
- mired-baluster-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 March 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Blue House Cottages, 1 and 2, Battle Lane, Marden, TN12 9AN
- OS grid reference
- TQ 759 460
- Coordinates
- 51.18642, 0.51592
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Blue House Cottages are a house, likely dating back to the 16th century or earlier, and significantly altered in the 19th century. The building is timber-framed and clad in weatherboarding, with a plain tile roof. It is two storeys high. The roof is steeply pitched with gablets. A brick ridge stack is positioned towards the right end, and a projecting stack made of red and grey brick is at the right gable end. The windows are irregularly placed and consist of three-light casements. A boarded door sits beneath the stack, with another door adjacent to it on the left, each protected by a flat bracketed hood. A red-and-grey brick ground-floor extension and a weatherboarded first floor with a hipped plain tile roof extend to the rear on the left. A similar wing is present to the right, and a central wing fills the space between them, all with hipped roofs. The interior remains unexamined.
Local climate
Blue House Cottages receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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 2003
- 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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