Former Municipal Baths
FORMER MUNICIPAL BATHS, HENRY SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1067992
- Date first listed:
- 02-Apr-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Former Municipal Baths
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER MUNICIPAL BATHS, HENRY SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1067992
- Date first listed:
- 02-Apr-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Former Municipal Baths
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER MUNICIPAL BATHS, HENRY SQUARE
- Statutory Address 2:
- FORMER MUNICIPAL BATHS, STAMFORD STREET
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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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER MUNICIPAL BATHS, HENRY SQUARE
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER MUNICIPAL BATHS, STAMFORD STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Tameside (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 93352 98687
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 10/01/2012
SJ 99 NW
4/9
2/4/75
ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE
HENRY SQUARE
(south side)
Former Municipal Baths
(Formerly listed as Hugh Mason House
(formerly listed as The Municipal Baths))
G.V.
II*
Municipal swimming baths, now industrial/office units. 1870-
71 and later. By Paull and Robinson. Flemish bond brick with
slate roof and stone dressings. Large swimming hall with
tower at north east and subsidiary accommodation at east.
Italian Romanesque style. 5-bay swimming hall has flat
pilasters, a machicolated frieze below the eaves level and 3
round-headed windows with hoodmoulds and glazing bars in the
upper storey of each bay. Other elevations are treated
similarly. A lean-to against the ground floor has a central
entrance feature with 2 arched door openings and numerous
small arched lights under dripmoulds. The Lombardic tower
has vent openings towards the top between bold
machicolations. A similarly detailed chimney rises from the
apex of the roof. To the left of the tower another elaborate
entrance surround gives access to the lower 2-storey wing
which has paired windows on the lower floor and 11 round
windows on the first floor. Interior: the swimming pool (at
the time said to be the second largest covered bath in
Europe) now filled in, is surrounded by paired columns with
moulded capitals supporting semi-circular brick arches.
Impressive hammer-beam roof. Other fittings, including doors,
staircases etc. have survived intact. Apart from being an
important early example of a Municipal swimming bath the
building is exeptional because of its forceful
architectural massing and use of stylistic features.
Listing NGR: SJ9335298687
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 212657
- 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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