Old Steam Laundry is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. Industrial building. 2 related planning applications.
Old Steam Laundry
- WRENN ID
- silver-chamber-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Industrial building
- Address
- Old Steam Laundry, Upper Wharf, Bude-Stratton, EX23 8LW
- OS grid reference
- SS 207 057
- Coordinates
- 50.82389, -4.54648
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Steam Laundry, now converted, was built around 1840. It is constructed of rubble stone with ashlar dressings and brick voussoirs. The roof is of ragslate, gabled, with projecting eaves and brick stacks featuring moulded brick caps. The symmetrical front, facing the canal, has a 10-bay round-headed open arcade of brick with ashlar keystones below an ashlar string course. Segmental brick arches top the windows above, which contain 20th-century windows. The right gable is timber boarded above the string course, with a large industrial brick stack in the rear right corner. This stack is corbelled and rolled, with a capping at the ridge. An attic has been converted, with 20th-century roof lights inserted. The building is part of a group of industrial structures lining the Bude end of the Bude canal.
Local climate
Old Steam Laundry sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 2 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
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