Description

KINGS NIMPTON KINGS NYMPTON PARK
SS 61 NE
3/125 Laundry immediately north-north--
9.6.52 west of Kings Nympton Park
GV II*

Laundry, including a wash house and servants' accommodation. Probably mid C18 and
contemporary with King's Nympton Park (q.v). Local stone rubble with dressed stone
quoins and red brick and cement dressings. Hipped slate roof. Large ashlar axial
stack at the centre with a chamfered cornice and plinth.
Plan: rectangular on plan with a large central stack serving 3 main rooms; the wash
house to the left has direct entry through a doorway at the front, the right-hand
room is entered through a cross-passage at the rignt-hand end of the building, the
third room is situated behind the stack. There is a staircase at the back in the
right-hand corner and another to the left behind the wash house.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 4-window front; the windows are more widely
spaced at the centre and all are original with thick glazing bars; 9-pane sashes
for the right and left of centre and 4 original horizontally pivotted first floor
windows on the first with 6 panes. All the openings have red brick flat arches and
jambs. To the right and left of the front the original 6-panel doors in similar
brick openings. The parapet steps up at the centre and has a moulded cement cornice
and string.
Asymmetrical rear elevation witn C19 3-light casements and C19 plank door. The west
end has an C18 2-light cross mullion transom ground floor window and a C19 3-light
window above and blocked openings to the right. The east elevation is symmetrical
with blind or blocked windows, the ground floor left-hand and right-hand are C18 9-
pane sashes with thick glazing bars, the first floor right-hand window is an C18 6-
pane horizontally pivoting window with thick glazing bars.
Interior: the left-hand room, the wash-house has 2 large coppers, one very large in
3 arched recesses in the stack. The right-hand room and the back room also have
fireplaces in the central stack.

Listing NGR: SS6726719571

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17532905

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