Laundry Immediately North North West of Kings Nympton Park
LAUNDRY IMMEDIATELY NORTH NORTH WEST OF KINGS NYMPTON PARK
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1325777
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Laundry Immediately North North West of Kings Nympton Park
- Statutory Address:
- LAUNDRY IMMEDIATELY NORTH NORTH WEST OF KINGS NYMPTON PARK
Have you got a photo to share?
Join the Missing Pieces Project. We want you to share your photos and memories.
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1325777
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Laundry Immediately North North West of Kings Nympton Park
- Statutory Address 1:
- LAUNDRY IMMEDIATELY NORTH NORTH WEST OF KINGS NYMPTON PARK
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- LAUNDRY IMMEDIATELY NORTH NORTH WEST OF KINGS NYMPTON PARK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- King's Nympton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 67267 19571
Details
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 97301
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 10-Jul-2026 at 04:54:25.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.