Laundry About 15 Metres West of Minster Abbey is a Grade II listed building in the Thanet local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 1958. A C12 Brewhouse.

Laundry About 15 Metres West of Minster Abbey

WRENN ID
high-corbel-jackdaw
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Thanet
Constituency
Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 February 1958
Type
Brewhouse
Address
Laundry About 15 Metres West of Minster Abbey, CT12 4HF
OS grid reference
TR 311 643
Coordinates
51.33116, 1.31709
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The building is a brewhouse, now functioning as a laundry, located about 15 metres west of Minster Abbey. It possibly dates back to the 12th century and is constructed of flint with a plain tiled roof. The structure has a square plan and is one storey high, featuring a hipped roof with large gablets. There is a stack at the right end. The entrance includes a segmental headed doorway made of re-used tooled stone, which has a boarded door. On the left side, there is a blocked round arched window, and at the rear, there is a 19th-century tripartite glazing bar sash window. Inside, the building has a 17th-century clasped purlin roof and large cross-beams that were used for suspending equipment.

Local climate

Laundry About 15 Metres West of Minster Abbey sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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