Former Cookery and Laundry Building, Kingsway College Clerkenwell Centre is a Grade II listed building in the Islington local planning authority area, England. Educational building. 4 related planning applications.
Former Cookery and Laundry Building, Kingsway College Clerkenwell Centre
- WRENN ID
- half-foundation-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Islington
- Constituency
- Islington South and Finsbury MP: Emily Thornberry (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Educational building
- Address
- Former Cookery and Laundry Building, Kingsway College Clerkenwell Centre, Sans Walk
- OS grid reference
- TQ 314 823
- Coordinates
- 51.52452, -0.10621
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building, formerly a cookery and laundry facility, was constructed around 1892 as part of the Hugh Myddelton Schools, located on the west side of the school yard. It is built of yellow brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with stucco and red brick dressings, and a tiled roof. The building has three storeys and originally four windows. A flat-arched entrance on the south side is framed by a stone architrave inscribed "COOKERY & LAUNDRY". The windows are flat-arched, with heads of gauged red brick and red brick dressings, mullions, and transoms. On the first floor, the two central windows are recessed beneath elliptical arches, which are set within twin stone-coped dormers topped with ball finials. The roof is half-hipped and gableted, with stacks at the north-east and north-west corners. A two-storey wing extends to the north, featuring a cantilevered and rendered upper floor and a hipped slate roof; this appears to be an addition. The building is included in the listing for its group value within the wider school complex.
Local climate
Former Cookery and Laundry Building, Kingsway College Clerkenwell Centre 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 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings
Nearby listed buildings
- Part of Former House of Detention, Below Kingsway College Clerkenwell Centre
- School Keeper's House, Kingsway College Clerkenwell Centre
- Cells, Former House of Detention, Kingsway College Clerkenwell Close
- Kingsway College Clerkenwell Centre
- Outbuilding on South Side of the Yard, Kingsbury College Clerkenwell Centre
- Numbers 26 to 32 (Even) and Attached Railings
- Former Bowling Green Lane Board School
- Boundary Wall, Kingsway College Clerkenwell Close
- 22a and 24 St James's Walk
- Bollard Outside Number 20