3-6, Laundry Lane is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1973. Houses. 2 related planning applications.
3-6, Laundry Lane
- WRENN ID
- shifting-pediment-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1973
- Type
- Houses
- Address
- 3-6, Laundry Lane, Shaftesbury, SP7 8HP
- OS grid reference
- ST 859 226
- Coordinates
- 51.00301, -2.20156
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
These are a group of four cottages, numbered 3 to 6, built in 1615, with alterations in the 19th century. The cottages have two storeys. Nos 3 and 4 have a slightly higher frontage and a higher roofline than Nos 5 and 6. Nos 3 and 4 have a slate gabled roof, while Nos 5 and 6 have a tiled gabled roof. The walls are of stone, coursed, with the upper part of Nos 3 and 4 being brick. Each cottage has one window bay, except for No 6, which has two. The windows are small, with two-light and three-light panes; the windows in No 3 have been altered. The cottages have wooden boarded doors, found at Nos 4, 5, and 6.
Local climate
3-6, Laundry Lane receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 1996
- 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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