Boiler House and Laundry North of Jane Walker Hospital is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1992. Boiler house, laundry.
Boiler House and Laundry North of Jane Walker Hospital
- WRENN ID
- other-beam-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1992
- Type
- Boiler house, laundry
- Address
- Boiler House and Laundry North of Jane Walker Hospital, Nayland-With-Wissington
- OS grid reference
- TL 951 343
- Coordinates
- 51.97341, 0.84001
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The boiler house and laundry located north of Jane Walker Hospital were built around 1898-1900 by Smith and Brewer for the East Anglian Sanatorium Company. Constructed from English bond brick, the building features pantile roofs with gabled and hipped ends. The layout includes a long, narrow southeast range that serves as the laundry, which has a water tower and an integral chimney at its northwest end. At right angles to this is the boiler house, characterized by a broad double-span roof and designed in a functional late Victorian Free Style.
The exterior of the building is single-storey. The boiler house has broad twin gables that are glazed and supported by battered brick buttresses, originally featuring large doors below. On the north side, there is a low-pitched gabled vehicular entrance with a segmental arch, while the south side has a segmental window in a wide gable. The laundry wing is distinguished by large segmental-headed four-light windows with glazing bars on the west side and a louvred ventilator along the ridge. A large rectangular water tower is located on the north side, topped with an iron tank that has railings and an iron ladder on the side, adjacent to the integral tapered chimney that rises above the tank. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Boiler House and Laundry North of Jane Walker Hospital 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 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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