The Old Laundry is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1987. House.

The Old Laundry

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 June 1987
Type
House
Address
The Old Laundry, Laundry Lane, Thornham Magna
OS grid reference
TM 097 712
Coordinates
52.29942, 1.07441
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Laundry is a house located on Laundry Lane in Thornham Magna. It dates from the early 17th century, with possible earlier elements, and was altered and extended in the 19th century. The building features a timber frame with plastered walls and a thatched roof. It has a three-cell cross passage plan and stands two storeys tall.

On the ground floor, the entrance is situated to the right of the center and features a boarded architraved door. To the left, there are two three-light glazing bar casements, and to the right, a brick plinth with a small single light. The first floor has a mix of two and three-light casements. A ridge stack is positioned to the left of center between the hall and parlour, with an additional 19th-century stack on the front slope to the right, serving the service bay.

The right end of the building has two-light casements, a pentice board, 19th-century shaped brackets, and exposed purlins. The left end features a boarded door, a two-light casement, a pentice board, and exposed plates and purlins. At the rear, there is a boarded door located in the cross passage position, and behind the service bay, there is a short wing with a steeply pitched tiled roof. The interior has not been inspected. The building was formerly known as Spalding's Farm House.

Local climate

The Old Laundry sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% 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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