Garden Block to the South of Langleys is a Grade II listed building in the Chelmsford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 December 1952. Laundry block.
Garden Block to the South of Langleys
- WRENN ID
- small-tallow-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Chelmsford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 December 1952
- Type
- Laundry block
- OS grid reference
- TL 699 136
- Coordinates
- 51.79543, 0.46292
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The garden block to the south of Langleys is a Grade II listed building originally used as a laundry block. It is a rectangular structure built of red brick in the later 18th century, featuring brick rusticated quoins. The north and south fronts each have a central dentilled brick pediment and cornice. The building is two storeys high and has a window arrangement of 2:4:2, with double-hung sash windows that include glazing bars, set in plain reveals with segmental heads. Several of the windows are now blocked. This garden block, along with Langleys and the stables at Langleys, forms a group of related structures.
Local climate
Garden Block to the South of Langleys sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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