Laundry Cottage and the Laundry is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1985. Cottage.
Laundry Cottage and the Laundry
- WRENN ID
- tall-obsidian-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Beaconsfield MP: Joy Morrissey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Laundry Cottage and the Laundry, Hitcham Lane, Burnham
- OS grid reference
- SU 921 826
- Coordinates
- 51.53553, -0.67329
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Laundry Cottage and The Laundry is an 18th-century building with a 19th-century laundry addition at the rear, which has been converted into a bungalow. It features red brick and colourwashed brick with a hipped handmade tile roof. The structure is two storeys high and has two flush sash windows. The ground floor is notable for four wooden Tuscan columns that are built into the brickwork and support an oak beam. There are two sash windows on the ground floor, with a door located in the centre. All windows include glazing bars.
Local climate
Laundry Cottage and the Laundry sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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