DARWIN'S BATH AT SK 096100

DARWIN'S BATH AT SK 096100, ABNALLS LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1294946
Date first listed:: 27-Feb-1964
List Entry Name:: DARWIN'S BATH AT SK 096100
Statutory Address:: DARWIN'S BATH AT SK 096100, ABNALLS LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1294946
Date first listed:: 27-Feb-1964
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Jan-1988
List Entry Name:: DARWIN'S BATH AT SK 096100
Statutory Address 1:: DARWIN'S BATH AT SK 096100, ABNALLS LANE

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

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: DARWIN'S BATH AT SK 096100, ABNALLS LANE

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

County:: Staffordshire
District:: Lichfield (District Authority)
Parish:: Burntwood
National Grid Reference:: SK0964610018

Details

SK 01 SE BURNTWOOD C.P. ABNALLS LANE SK 096100 (south side)

2/2 Darwin's Bath at SK 096100 (formerly 27.2.64 listed as Bath House, Home Farm) - II

Bath house. Reputedly early to mid-C18 base with a superstructure of circa 1890 and C20. Sandstone base with brick walls and segmental corrugated iron roof. Rectangular in plan approx. 3m x 10m. The base is all that remains of the sandstone tank bought in 1779 by Erasmus Darwin from Thomas Weld. The enclosing brick walls (approx. 1.8m high) and access steps must be Darwin's improvement and the canopy placed later for protection. The bath is sited in a hollow at the head of a stream close to Abnalls Cottage (q.v.) which Darwin used as a convalescence base for his patients, the bath being part of a curative system.

Listing NGR: SK0964610018

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 272612
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.