The Old Sheep Washery is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 22 May 1978. Washery. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Sheep Washery
- WRENN ID
- lost-threshold-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Constituency
- Vale of Glamorgan MP: Kanishka Narayan (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 22 May 1978
- Type
- Washery
- Address
- The Old Sheep Washery, Llysworney, Llandow, CF71 7NQ
- OS grid reference
- SS 962 741
- Coordinates
- 51.45682, -3.49516
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Old Sheep Washery is a single-storey building dating from the 18th century. It features whitewashed stone rubble walls and a roof with two bays covered in corrugated cladding. At the northwest end, there is a small stone chimney stack. The northwest gable wall includes a small shuttered opening on the east side and an egress for water to the stream bed on the west side. The southwest elevation has an opening at its base that leads to an internal basin, while the southeast gable wall has a wide opening on the east side.
On the west side, approximately one third of the building's surface is occupied by a sunken basin for washing, which receives water from a pipe in the southeast gable end. A flight of steps at the north end of the basin leads up to a platform with a stone flagged floor and a low stone rubble balustrade above the basin, although this balustrade is now partly demolished. The northeast wall contains the remains of a fireplace. It is believed that this structure was used as a communal laundry.
Local climate
The Old Sheep Washery sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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.
- Sale history — 8 transactions since 2000
- 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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