Wash House, High Road, Manthorpe, Lincolnshire

This small building is a wash house (laundry). It was built in the mid 1800s. It was built for workers on the Belton estate by the Brownlow family of Belton House. It is part of a planned village that aimed to provide better living conditions for the estate workers living there.

Location

Lincolnshire Manthorpe

Period

Victorian (1837 - 1901)

Tags

wash house planned community philanthropy Victorian (1837 - 1901)