The former Swindon Steam Laundry

The former Swindon Steam Laundry, built in the late 19th century, occupies a prominent corner site on Aylesbury Street. It is constructed of brick with painted Bath stone dressings and pitched slate roofs. The building has an L-shaped footprint, with gables facing Station Road.

The single-storey block to the east of the building, dating from 1891, originally served as the gas ironing and finishing room. The two-storey block to the right contained the mangling, drying, and ironing rooms, with an airing room and a small women's mess and cloakroom located on the first floor.

The gabled elevation to Station Road on the left has four bays, featuring segmental-headed windows with boarded-up timber multi-pane casements. Decorative chamfered panels are situated below the windows. The gable itself has a chamfered string outlining its triangular shape and a central keyed oculus for ventilation. The corner of the building is emphasised by a stone pilaster topped with a ball finial on a pedestal. The matching two-storey gable to the right is taller and narrower, with similar window and panel detailing to both floors, set between end pilasters and a gable with a central ventilation oculus. A later inserted door is visible at ground floor level.

The return elevation to the right has segmental-headed windows, some now blocked at ground floor level, and bears painted letters under the roof line which appear to read 'THE SOUTHERN LAUNDRY'. A late window addition is present at first floor level. The long, single-storey side elevation facing Aylesbury Street has eleven bays, with alternating shorter and taller segmental-headed windows, one of which has been converted into a loading bay.

The rear of the building shows evidence of earlier blocked openings on the left gable. The projecting right gable has two large rectangular openings fitted with late 20th-century metal shutters. A rear extension built in the late 20th century was removed in 2012, and Ordnance Survey maps have not yet been updated to reflect this change.

Internally, none of the original steam laundering machinery remains. The layout, which is largely open plan, remains intact as shown in surviving late 19th-century floor plans. The rooms feature wide-span cast iron roofs with a number of cast iron columns surviving at ground floor level, particularly within the former mangling, drying, and ironing room.