The Bathing House

THE BATHING HOUSE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1041801
Date first listed:
01-Sept-1988
List Entry Name:
The Bathing House
Statutory Address:
THE BATHING HOUSE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1041801
Date first listed:
01-Sept-1988
List Entry Name:
The Bathing House
Statutory Address 1:
THE BATHING HOUSE

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
THE BATHING HOUSE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Longhoughton
National Grid Reference:
NU 26165 17512

Details

NU 21 NE LONGHOUGHTON HOWICK

6/111 The Bathing House

GV II

Bathing House. c.1840 conversion of older cottage, for the Grey family. Rubble ground floor with squared stone above; tooled-and-margined dressings (in part cemented over). Welsh slate roof except for synthetic blue slates on north pent part; terracotta chimney pots. 1 + 2 storeys, 3 bays. Centre bay has boarded door in gabled porch with shouldered arch on left. 3-light mullioned window with 3-pane casements; blocked 2-light window above. Deep eaves on cast-iron brackets. Coped gables on elaborate moulded kneelers with pyramid finials; end stacks with tall paired moulded terracotta pots (one at right end missing). Single-storey pent-roofed left end bay has 4-pane casement and small arched light. Single-storey right bay has blocked chamfered slit. Right return shows 4-pane sash, in former 2-light mullioned window, with gable slit above. Front to sea shows wide C20 ground-floor window, below large tripartite sash with boarded apron.

Stonework especially dressings, much perished through wind erosion. Included for historical interest and landscape value.

Listing NGR: NU2616517512

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
237002
Legacy System:
LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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