Blue House, 2 Lime Kilns and Cliff Garden is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1985. Lime kiln, cottage. 5 related planning applications.
Blue House, 2 Lime Kilns and Cliff Garden
- WRENN ID
- high-rood-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 November 1985
- Type
- Lime kiln, cottage
- Address
- Blue House, 2 Lime Kilns and Cliff Garden, Portloe, Veryan
- OS grid reference
- SW 937 394
- Coordinates
- 50.21891, -4.89226
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Blue House comprises two lime kilns, probably dating to the 18th century, and adjoining cottages built in the early to mid-19th century. The building is constructed of slatestone rubble with roofs of grouted scantle slate, featuring brick chimneys on the gable ends. The cottages have one or two rooms each. The lime kilns are built directly into the hillside.
The south-facing street front features a two-window cottage to the left, which may have been partly converted from a kiln. It has four-pane sash windows and an entrance at one end. Behind and to the sides of this cottage are pairs of semi-circular vaults, used for raking out lime. A three-window cottage stands to the right, with a 20th-century shop window with 18 panes on the ground floor to the left. A central 20th-century door with a glazed overlight sits between the second and third windows, flanked by 12-paned sash windows, all with cambered brick arches. The interior spaces have not been inspected.
A well is located at the rear. The property is included on the list for group value, acknowledging the overall significance of the collection of listed buildings.
Local climate
Blue House, 2 Lime Kilns and Cliff Garden receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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 — 4 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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