Laundry Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Charnwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 June 1966. Cottage.
Laundry Cottage
- WRENN ID
- distant-doorway-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Charnwood
- Constituency
- Loughborough MP: Dr Jeevun Sandher (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 June 1966
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Laundry Cottage, Prestwold
- OS grid reference
- SK 578 215
- Coordinates
- 52.78817, -1.1429
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Laundry Cottage is a late 16th-century cottage and the only remaining building from the former village of Prestwold. It features a timber frame constructed in large panels, measuring 4 by 2 high, with arch bracing set on a plinth made of brick and rubble. The infill consists of wattle and daub as well as brick. The cottage has a thatched roof, and the rear wall has no openings, while the front (east) wall contains a door and windows that are horizontal sliding sashes. The structure is built in two distinct parts, each with its own roof, and there is a brick stack located between these two sections. Additionally, there are large thatched outshuts to the north and south.
Local climate
Laundry 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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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