Laundry Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the North Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 April 2002. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Laundry Cottages
- WRENN ID
- ragged-shingle-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Somerset
- Constituency
- North Somerset MP: Sadik Al-Hassan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 April 2002
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Laundry Cottages, Wraxall and Failand, BS48 1NW
- OS grid reference
- ST 512 707
- Coordinates
- 51.43348, -2.70207
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Laundry Cottages are stables and a coach house that have been converted into estate cottages, dating from the early 19th century. They are constructed of ashlar and rendered stone, topped with a slate roof featuring pedimental gable ends and brick axial stacks. The building has a U-shaped plan with flanking wings surrounding a central yard and is designed in a Neo-Classical style.
The exterior is two storeys high and features a symmetrical arrangement of windows on the west front, with a 2:2:2 pattern. The projecting flanking wings each have two bays, pedimental gables, and giant corner pilasters. The ground floor has 12-pane sash windows, while the first floor has smaller 9-pane sashes. Similar sashes are found in the left and right returns. The central range includes three-light casements on the first floor with glazing bars and cambered arches, smaller two-light casements on the ground floor, and plank doors replacing the original coach house doors. The interior has not been inspected, but the building is noted as a good example of a small early 19th-century Neo-Classical style range of stables.
Local climate
Laundry Cottages receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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.
- No sale records on file
- 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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