Building record TQ 55 NW 624 - Sevenoaks Sanitary Laundry, 16 Hollybush Lane, Sevenoaks

The Sevenoaks Sanitary laundry is attached to a group of white painted rendered buildings, on the corner of Hartslands road, now known as The Mews (which have an entrance on Hollybush Lane.) The main building is of yellow brick with red brick dressings. However, the listing is for the whole group and not just for the yellow brick building. The two storey front elevation has a Dutch style shaped gable with brick copings, and circular window with rubbed brick surround above a moulded brick string. Modern double doors below original semicircular rubbed brick arched opening. The buildings date from the middle of the 19th century and the function changed over time. The site is still labelled 'gas works' on the 1868/9 OS map then the first mention of a laundry on the site is in Salmon's Sevenoaks Directory of 1917, when it was Enstons Laundry. In 1924 it became Sevenoaks Sanitary Laundry. (1)

<1> Sevenoaks District Council, Sevenoaks District Council Local List of Heritage Assets (Index). SKE53505.