Kington Laundry and Border Cleaners is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 July 1976. Laundry. 1 related planning application.
Kington Laundry and Border Cleaners
- WRENN ID
- grim-arch-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- North Herefordshire MP: Dr Ellie Chowns (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 July 1976
- Type
- Laundry
- Address
- Kington Laundry and Border Cleaners, Victoria Road, HR5 3DA
- OS grid reference
- SO 301 569
- Coordinates
- 52.20605, -3.02305
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kington Laundry and Border Cleaners is an early 19th-century iron foundry that has been converted into a laundry. It is built from sandstone rubble and features a Welsh slate roof with some composite tiles, along with a rubble stack base at the rear. The building has a courtyard plan with a rear wing and has undergone many additions and alterations over the years. It is generally a single-storey structure with various windows and entrances. The main entrance is a carriageway that is set under a dressed stone arch, topped with a pediment and a cupola. The rear range includes a louvred cupola. The rear wings, which are now used as dwellings, have a hipped roof, a 20th-century stack, and 19th-century casement windows, some of which have cambered heads. There are also altered openings beneath stone segmental arches, which likely indicate former wheel races.
Local climate
Kington Laundry and Border Cleaners receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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 — 1 transaction since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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