The Laundry to North of the Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 November 1998. Laundry, house. 1 related planning application.
The Laundry to North of the Cottage
- WRENN ID
- under-tin-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Corby and East Northamptonshire MP: Lee Barron (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 November 1998
- Type
- Laundry, house
- Address
- The Laundry to North of the Cottage, Ashton, PE8 5LD
- OS grid reference
- TL 052 885
- Coordinates
- 52.48442, -0.45117
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A former laundry and attached house, built between 1743 and 1801, and altered in 1900-01 by William Huckvale for Charles Rothschild. The building is constructed of coursed squared stone with hipped and half-hipped thatched roofs, and features stone ridge and end stacks with moulded ashlar flues. The architectural style is Vernacular Revival. The complex plan includes a linking corridor to the back of the house, a long cross wing containing the main laundry rooms, and a wing extending to the rear of this.
The house section has a gable to the left with a leaded four-light stone mullioned window with a hoodmould to both floors. A square bay window, a part-glazed door with overlight, and a small eyebrow dormer are set within a verandah. Further windows and a stack are present on the right end, with a three-light and a two-light window. Similar windows are found to the rear, along with a plank door. The linking corridor incorporates a part-glazed door, a screen, mullioned and transomed windows, and an eyebrow dormer. The long cross wing has two-light mullioned and transomed windows to the sides and rear, and taller four-light windows to the ends. Roof louvres have thatched roofs. A single-storey wing to the rear of the cross wing has single- and two-light windows to the sides and three plank doors on the end.
The interior of the cross wing features green-tiled dados and white-tiled walls above. This extensive complex is an important part of the model estate buildings of Ashton built by Charles Rothschild, and has significant group value.
Local climate
The Laundry to North of the Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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