Laundry Cottage and Gates is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 July 1986. House.

Laundry Cottage and Gates

WRENN ID
slow-iron-dawn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Chippenham MP: Sarah Gibson (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 July 1986
Type
House
Address
Laundry Cottage and Gates, Derry Hill & Studley
OS grid reference
ST 973 699
Coordinates
51.4288, -2.03884
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Laundry Cottage and gates is a house built in the mid-19th century. It is constructed from squared rubble stone and features a slate hipped roof with end-wall and ridge stacks. The east front has two storeys and four windows, with sash windows that have 9 panes above and 12 panes below, all set in flush stone surrounds. The building has flush quoins.

At the rear, there is a single-storey laundry range with a slate roof, which has a lean-to against the south wall of the Walled Garden. The roof extends over a broad verandah supported by painted timber posts, featuring 12-pane and 16-pane sashes. At the west end, there is a two-storey return with sash windows and a hipped roof.

Attached to the south wall of the main house is a wall that connects to gatepiers, which support fine mid-19th century iron gates that were relocated from the forecourt of the demolished main part of Bowood House.

Local climate

Laundry Cottage and Gates receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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