Laundry Cottage and the Old Laundry is a Grade II listed building in the Wychavon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1986. House.
Laundry Cottage and the Old Laundry
- WRENN ID
- quartered-gutter-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wychavon
- Constituency
- West Worcestershire MP: Dame Harriett Baldwin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Laundry Cottage and the Old Laundry, Overbury
- OS grid reference
- SO 958 375
- Coordinates
- 52.03594, -2.0624
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Laundry Cottage and The Old Laundry is a house that was converted from a laundry, now divided into two homes. It underwent remodelling around 1900, which altered a mid-18th century building, with further changes made in the mid-20th century. The structure is built of coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings and features machine-tiled roofs with gable-end parapets and ashlar ridge end stacks. The stacks have moulded cappings, and the east end stack has two large square shafts. The building is two storeys high and consists of one plus three bays. All windows are leaded casements.
On the north elevation, the single-bay section has a three-light window on both floors, and the main entrance, located to the right, features a gabled rustic timber porch with a ledged and battened door. The three-bay section is lower in height and includes a two-light and a three-light window with cambered heads on the ground floor, a central two-light window on the first floor, and a central entrance with a flat moulded canopy on shaped brackets and a half-glazed door. There is also a single-storey wing at the rear of the single-bay section. The building is prominently located next to the Village Hall and is included for its group value.
Local climate
Laundry Cottage and the Old Laundry receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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