The Ilfracombe Hotel Laundry
(Ilfracombe Museum)
Drawing and text by kind permission of Jim Bates.

 The building was set in a hollow and designed to be discrete and inconspicuous but this did not prevent the builder (who no doubt was the architect as well) from putting up a well-mannered ancillary building. The brickwork was in contrasting colours with stepped patterns under the gables, courses along the front and arches over the windows. A date slab gives us 1885, some 19 years after the opening of the Hotel.