Laundry

WELLESBOURNE

SP25SE WALTON 1901-1/5/181 No.1 Laundry

GV II

Laundry building, now house. c1870. Possibly by Sir George Gilbert Scott. For Sir John Mordaunt. Brick with some timber-frame with brick infill; gabled tile roofs with stack to roof slope with diagonal shafts and caps, and rear stack. PLAN: 2-unit plan plus cross-wing to right and single-storey wing to left end. EXTERIOR: dentilled brick cornice over ground floor and square framing to first floor; wing has brick panels over ground floor and timber-framed gable; simple barge-boards. Entrance to left of wing has gabled 2-storey timber-framed porch with brackets to cornice; battened door with strap hinges. Windows have leaded casements; ground floor has 5-light transomed casement to left of entrance, and bay window with hipped roof over 1:4:1-light transomed casement to wing; first floor has 2-light casement to porch, gabled half-dormer with cross-casement with wide transom to left of porch and 3-light casement to wing. Stack to left slope of roof of wing. Single-storey wing to left end has large gabled half-dormer with 4-light transomed casement and 2-light casement to right end. Right return has 2 segmental-headed windows and 3 raking half-dormers. INTERIOR: not inspected. One of a group of estate cottages and other buildings.

Listing NGR: SP2862653332