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laundry — Lamb Alley

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Formerly attached, now detached four-bay two-storey over basement former wash-house, built 1907, having double-height gable-fronted laundry to north-west, and gable-fronted end-bay to front (north-east) elevation, gabled elevations to south-east and south-west. Pitched slate roofs, cut granite coping to barges, red brick chimneystacks having clay chimney pots, cast-iron rainwater goods, some timber eaves supports visible. Red brick laid in English garden wall bond to walls, carved granite plinth course over red brick to basement area. Round-headed ventilation shaft to apex of end-bay to front, and to apex of gable to south-east elevation. Single, bipartite and quadripartite square-headed window openings, Portland stone surrounds and mixed leaded and replacement uPVC windows. Diocletian window to front of laundry, Portland stone surround and mullions, steel-framed windows. Round-headed door opening to front, limestone surround, plain fanlight and steel door, square-headed door opening to north-west elevation of end-bay, limestone surround and steel door, shared rendered platform and steps flanked by wrought-iron railings on carved granite plinth wall. Square-profile open-work wrought-iron piers flanking double-leaf wrought-iron gate, matching railings on granite plinth wall enclosing basement area. Double-leaf wrought-iron gate to south-east of building. Pair of square-profile limestone piers having granite cornices and ball finials flanking double-leaf steel gate to north-west of building.

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