Blue Gums is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1989. House. 1 related planning application.
Blue Gums
- WRENN ID
- other-sill-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 October 1989
- Type
- House
- Address
- Blue Gums, Lamberhurst, TN3 8AL
- OS grid reference
- TQ 669 378
- Coordinates
- 51.11576, 0.38447
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Blue Gums is a house that dates from the 17th century or earlier. It features a timber frame that is rendered, with applied half-timbering and weatherboarded return elevations. The roof is plain tiled and has a half-hipped design to the right, complete with a gablet and a stack on the left end. The house has two storeys and a garret. On the first floor, there are two three-light wooden casements, while the ground floor has one two-light and one three-light casement. A central gabled 20th-century porch with a rib and stud door is located at the front. There are lean-to outshots on both the left and right sides of the building.
Local climate
Blue Gums receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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