The Old Laundry is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 August 1990. House. 1 related planning application.
The Old Laundry
- WRENN ID
- winter-outpost-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 August 1990
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Laundry, the Green, Brenchley and Matfield, TN12 7LA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 658 418
- Coordinates
- 51.15152, 0.37021
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Laundry is a house, dating to circa 1700, with later 20th-century alterations. It is of framed construction, with a roughcast front elevation and a peg-tile roof, featuring a brick stack.
The house is west-facing, with a main block of single-depth, two rooms wide, and a larger, heated room to the rear. An outshut is located to the rear, and there is a single-storey addition at the right end. The building was used as a laundry in the 1920s and 1930s, with the front single-storey addition serving as the ironing room.
The main block has a symmetrical three-bay front and a deep mansard roof. A disused 19th-century front door is centrally positioned, flanked by 19th-century three-light small-pane casement windows. Two similar first-floor windows are also present. The two left-hand ground floor windows have top-hung panes, likely for ventilation related to the former laundry use. A flat-roofed attic dormer contains a small-pane 19th-century casement. The single-storey addition at the right end has a 20th-century front door to the left and garage doors to the right.
The interior has been modernised, with the original partition between the two rooms removed.
Local climate
The Old Laundry receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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
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