UNCLE Elephant & CastleElephant and Castle, Southwark

9 Churchyard Row, SE11 4FH · nearest station Elephant & Castle (297 m) · data as of 19 Jun 2026

72: active short-letsreviewed in the last 12 months
71%: are entire homes51 homes, 20 private rooms
£218: median nightly pricefrom 62 listed prices
69: nights booked a yearmedian, estimated
£16,700: yearly revenue per listingmedian, estimated
28%: run by large operatorshosts with 10+ London listings

Bedroom mix

1 bed 61%
2 bed 32%
3 bed 1%
4+ bed 6%

Average 1.5 bedrooms — roughly 1.5 linen sets per changeover.

Guest reviews per month (proxy for stays)

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

What it means for linen

~41 changeovers a week within 250 m

Every checkout is a bed to strip and a set to replace. Around UNCLE Elephant & Castle that adds up to an estimated 2,118 changeovers a year — about 62 sets of bed linen a week.

2,118: changeovers a year, est.
~62: linen sets a week, est.

Nearby buildings on the SE1 round

Building	Street	Distance	Short-lets within 250 m
One The Elephant	St Gabriel Walk	130 m	76
Hampton Court Palace Hotel	Hampton Street	170 m	71
The Old Firestation	—	230 m	42
Gilmour Section House	—	250 m	37
Castle Hotel	—	260 m	84

LPLAUNDRY

UNCLE Elephant & Castle · 19 Jun 2026

What guests say about linen nearby

21 of 843 guest reviews here in the last 12 months mention sheets, towels or linen; about 6 of those point to a problem.

“Great shower space and pressure and temperature, towels provided.”Airbnb guest near UNCLE Elephant & Castle · August 2025

“Bed was mediocre, but lots of pillows and blankets provided in flat.”Airbnb guest near UNCLE Elephant & Castle · May 2026

“The heating is okay, but the living room is quite cold, but also with not enough bedding I was very cold throughout the night.”Airbnb guest near UNCLE Elephant & Castle · January 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 UNCLE Elephant & Castle on the SE1 round, so a single property is collected the same way fifty are.
May is the busy month hereReviews around UNCLE Elephant & Castle peak in May 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, 9.2 miles from UNCLE Elephant & Castle — the SE1 round collects from Churchyard Row and the 8 named buildings around it — not in a domestic machine, and bagged by set ready to use.
Elephant & Castle is 297 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 UNCLE Elephant & Castle

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

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