Blue Ride Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Guildford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 June 1975. House. 3 related planning applications.
Blue Ride Cottage
- WRENN ID
- gentle-moat-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Guildford
- Constituency
- Guildford MP: Zöe Franklin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 June 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- Blue Ride Cottage, the Drift, East Horsley, KT24 6NU
- OS grid reference
- TQ 091 551
- Coordinates
- 51.28526, -0.43559
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Blue Ride Cottage is a house dating from 1846, built in the Lovelace style. It is constructed from flint rubble with brick dressings and has slate roofs. The building has a “T” shaped layout. It is two storeys high and features an end stack to the gable, round in shape and decorated with cut brick in a diamond pattern. The cottage includes a guilloche-style terracotta band to the plinth, a decorative lozenge band to the first floor, and a brick billet band to the eaves. The gable end facing the street has an oval crest in the apex. There are two cambered head casement windows on the first floor and one first floor casement window to the right, positioned within a whitewashed brick extension. A cambered head, glazed door is located on the ground floor to the right. The return front on the left side of the building has one first floor window on each floor, alongside a cambered head casement window on the ground floor to the right. This ground floor window retains original glazing bars and is set within a chamfered brick surround.
Local climate
Blue Ride Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 1 transaction since 2021
- 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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