Laundry Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1985. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Laundry Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- fallow-terrace-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Laundry Farmhouse, Bedford Road, Old Warden, SG18 9HJ
- OS grid reference
- TL 133 436
- Coordinates
- 52.07941, -0.34673
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Laundry Farmhouse is a house located on the Shuttleworth estate, built in a cottage ornee style. Although plaques indicate the year 1879 and feature the Shuttleworth emblem, the building is a reworking of an 18th-century structure. It has a timber-framed construction with colourwashed roughcast render and applied timber framing on the gable attics. The roof is covered with clay tiles, featuring bands of fishscale tiles, decorative ridge cresting, and finials. The house has an L-plan layout with one storey and attics, along with a single-storey block to the north.
On the south elevation, there are three 3-light casements with glazing bars on the ground floor, and three gabled dormers in the attic that contain 3-light cast iron lattice casements. A gabled open porch is situated between the two left-hand bays, featuring a plank door. The house has one brick double ridge stack and one integral gable end stack, both topped with Tudor style pots. Most of the windows throughout the building are cast iron lattice casements.
Local climate
Laundry Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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