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

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