Royal Baths
Royal Baths, Crescent Road, Harrogate
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1149476
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Baths
- Statutory Address:
- Royal Baths, Crescent Road, Harrogate
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1149476
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Baths
- Statutory Address 1:
- Royal Baths, Crescent Road, Harrogate
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.
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:
- Royal Baths, Crescent Road, Harrogate
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Harrogate
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 29972 55454
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 12 December 2024 to reformat the text to current standards
SE 2955 SE 12/82
SE 3055 SW 14/82
CRESCENT ROAD (south side)
Royal Baths
GV
II
Circa 1894-7 by Baggerley Bristow. Mostly two storeys with semi-basements. Symmetrical facade with three bay centre linked by three bay extensions to three bay wings with centre bay set back at first floor level. Slated hipped roofs with central leaded dome with balustraded parapet and surmounted by Doric, octagonal cupola; wing roofs with wooden cupolas; two bell towers with corner pinnacles flank dome. Rusticated limestone ashlar podium, with tooled ashlar dressings to coursed squared rubble facing of ground and first floors. Console bracketed cornices with blocking course; centre block with carved parapet terminated by obelisk and with enriched centrpiece bearing the Harrogate Coat of Arms. Segmental arched podium windows; principal three-light windows of modified Venetian type with pilasters carrying entablature and segmental pediments; wings and centre entrance bay with lunettes. Prostyle Doric portico in antis. Assembly Room with quadrapartite plan with coffered dome; modified Corinthian Order with paired columns carrying entablature ; arched windows with stained glass. Balustraded parapet to forecourt wings.
Nos 2 to 24 (even) and the Royal Baths form a group with the return of No 3 Crown Place.
Listing NGR: SE2995555434
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 329857
- 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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