Wash House is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. Wash house.
Wash House
- WRENN ID
- white-granite-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- North Shropshire MP: Helen Morgan (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Wash house
- Address
- Wash House, Gales Lane, Prees
- OS grid reference
- SJ 575 331
- Coordinates
- 52.89368, -2.63284
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The wash house, now used as a store-shed, was likely built in the late 19th century. It is constructed of red brick and features a machine tile roof. The building is a single level with a small cast-iron latticed window on each side. Access is through a boarded door located at the right gable end, and there is a red brick ridge stack on the left. Inside, there is a cast-iron sink with a furnace below it for heating water, and a bread oven situated to the right of the stack. The floor is made of red tiles. This wash house is included in the register as a rare and complete example of a small Victorian wash house.
Local climate
Wash House receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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