Blue Gates is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 May 1984. A 19th century House. 2 related planning applications.
Blue Gates
- WRENN ID
- tangled-thatch-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1984
- Type
- House
- Period
- 19th century
- Address
- Blue Gates, 1, Church Lane, Great Horwood, MK17 0RQ
- OS grid reference
- SP 771 312
- Coordinates
- 51.9743, -0.87897
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Blue Gates is an early 19th-century house located on Church Lane in Great Horwood. The building is constructed of brick and features a slate roof with a brick stack on the east gable. It stands two storeys high and has three bays. The south front showcases paired barred wooden casements with cambered heads in the outer bays of the ground floor, while the first floor has three pairs of wooden casements from the 19th century. There is an entry on the north side, and attached to the left is a single-storey outbuilding made of rubble stone, which has an old tile roof, a brick coped gable, and a small window. This property is included for its group value.
Local climate
Blue Gates 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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 2 transactions since 2015
- 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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