The Old FirestationElephant and Castle, Southwark

· nearest station Kennington (349 m) · data as of 19 Jun 2026

44: active short-letsreviewed in the last 12 months
50%: are entire homes22 homes, 21 private rooms
£164: median nightly pricefrom 39 listed prices
78: nights booked a yearmedian, estimated
£12,800: yearly revenue per listingmedian, estimated
30%: run by large operatorshosts with 10+ London listings

Bedroom mix

1 bed 59%
2 bed 39%
3 bed 0%
4+ bed 2%

Average 1.5 bedrooms — roughly 1.5 linen sets per changeover.

Guest reviews per month (proxy for stays)

Jun 2025 – May 2026. Busiest: June 2025; quietest: February 2026.

What it means for linen

~29 changeovers a week within 250 m

Every checkout is a bed to strip and a set to replace. Around The Old Firestation that adds up to an estimated 1,533 changeovers a year — about 42 sets of bed linen a week.

1,533: changeovers a year, est.
~42: linen sets a week, est.

Nearby buildings on the SE1 round

Building	Street	Distance	Short-lets within 250 m
UNCLE Elephant & Castle	Churchyard Row	230 m	66
Hampton Court Palace Hotel	Hampton Street	320 m	71
One The Elephant	St Gabriel Walk	350 m	76
Castle Hotel	—	470 m	84
Flamingo Court	—	470 m	59

LPLAUNDRY

The Old Firestation · 19 Jun 2026

What guests say about linen nearby

10 of 646 guest reviews here in the last 12 months mention sheets, towels or linen; about 2 of those point to a problem.

“Overall good experience but no ventilation at all and bedding aren't clean.”Airbnb guest near The Old Firestation · October 2025

“We were especially satisfied with the 2 spacious beds, plenty of bedding, towels, various cooking utensils and cutlery.”Airbnb guest near The Old Firestation · October 2025

“Bed was mediocre, but lots of pillows and blankets provided in flat.”Airbnb guest near The Old Firestation · May 2026

Reviews of local short-lets, not of LPLaundry. Names removed.

How LPLaundry keeps short-let linen moving

One flat is not too small to matterNo minimum order and no contract. We already pass The Old Firestation on the SE1 round, so a single property is collected the same way fifty are.
June is the busy month hereReviews around The Old Firestation peak in June and bottom out in February. We raise your spare sets before the run-up, so the week you are fullest is not the week you run out.
Grey linen in guest photosWashed at our own Wembley plant, 9.1 miles from The Old Firestation — the SE1 round collects from Elephant and Castle and the 8 named buildings around it — not in a domestic machine, and bagged by set ready to use.
Kennington is 349 m away — short stays, back to backCheckout at 10, check-in at 3, most days of the week. The clean set is in the flat before the guest has left.

Airbnb laundry near The Old Firestation

Linen hire and changeover laundry, collected and delivered 7 days on the SE1 round. No minimum order.

020 4621 9097 lplaundry.com · get a quote online

Sources and method. Short-let figures: ,[object Object],, London snapshot 19 Jun 2026, licensed ,[object Object],. Active means at least one review in the previous 12 months. Building name, address and nearest station: © ,[object Object],, licensed ,[object Object],. All figures describe listings within 250 m of the building. They say nothing about any flat in The Old Firestation itself. Medians are shown only when at least 10 listings report the value. Prices above £2000 a night are excluded as outliers. The 90-night limit on short lets in Greater London is the ,[object Object],, not our interpretation of it. Rebuilt each time Inside Airbnb publishes a new London snapshot, about every three months. Short-let research, figures and method: Hassam Rafkey, Short-Let Research & Data Consultant and independent consultant to LPLaundry (15 years in Airbnb and short-let research). LPLaundry is a trading name of HHFA Group Services Limited, registered in England and Wales, company number 16234834. Registered office: 1B Chantry Place, Harrow HA3 6NY. Spotted a figure that looks wrong? ,[object Object], and we will check it against the source and correct it.

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