The Governors Office and Former Laundry is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 February 1993. Office. 1 related planning application.

The Governors Office and Former Laundry

WRENN ID
waiting-slate-crow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Oxford
Constituency
Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 February 1993
Type
Office
Address
The Governors Office and Former Laundry, New Road, OX1 1AY
OS grid reference
SP 510 061
Coordinates
51.75136, -1.26202
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Governor's Office and Former Laundry, now used for administration with the laundry located at the rear, dates from the mid to late 19th century. It is constructed of coursed stone with ashlar dressings and a plinth, topped by a slated hipped roof. The building has a rectangular plan, with a rectangular block extending at right angles to the rear. It stands two storeys high and features four windows. The entrance is asymmetrically placed and has a round arch, along with a fanlight and a part-glazed door. The first-floor windows are flat-arched sashes with a continuous sill band. At the rear, there is a single-storey block with a pitched roof and small rectangular windows, which is likely part of the earlier laundry.

Local climate

The Governors Office and Former Laundry sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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