Gipton Spa
GIPTON SPA, GLEDHOW VALLEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256285
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Gipton Spa
- Statutory Address:
- GIPTON SPA, GLEDHOW VALLEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256285
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Gipton Spa
- Statutory Address 1:
- GIPTON SPA, GLEDHOW VALLEY ROAD
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:
- GIPTON SPA, GLEDHOW VALLEY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 31977 36313
Details
LEEDS
SE3136 GLEDHOW VALLEY ROAD, Gledhow 714-1/20/702 (North East side) 19/10/51 Gipton Spa (Formerly Listed as: GLEDHOW VALLEY ROAD, Gledhow Gipton Well (Waddington Bath))
II
Open air bath. C17 origins, rebuilt probably c1800. Coursed squared gritstone, stone slate roof. A gabled bath house with high wall on S side enclosing the plunge bath approx 3m square and 1.75m deep with a platform on 3 sides. The bath house has an entrance at the SW end with restored quoined jambs, moulded string, circular light in gable and moulded gable coping. On the door lintel a small metal plaque has the inscription: 'GIPTON SPA/ This bath-house was built in 1671/ Ice cold water from a nearby spring/ was conducted here to a sunken bath/ Also inside was a small fireplace/ to sweat the patients after bathing'. The previous List description records an inscribed stone with the words: 'Hoc faecit Edwardus Waddington de Gleadhowe Annovae Domini 1671', not seen at Review. Roof part robbed.
Listing NGR: SE3197736313
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465088
- 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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