La Xara is a small town constituted as an entity of territorial scope inferior to a municipality (EATIM), administratively independent, but part of the municipality of Dénia.
The washing place is a communal building with a single nave, crossed longitudinally by a small canal. Its structure has load-bearing walls and mortar back pillars, and it has a two-sided gable roof which has been rehabilitated and is well-preserved. It was inaugurated in 1954. Today, the construction has been integrated into a residential area with streets for pedestrians.