The Sulphur Bath

The Sulphur Bath

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1335353
Date first listed:
13-Feb-1967
List Entry Name:
The Sulphur Bath
Statutory Address:
The Sulphur Bath
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1335353
Date first listed:
13-Feb-1967
List Entry Name:
The Sulphur Bath
Statutory Address 1:
The Sulphur Bath

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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.

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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 Sulphur Bath

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

County:
Derbyshire
District:
Amber Valley (District Authority)
Parish:
Kedleston
National Grid Reference:
SK 31811 40531

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 5 September 2022 to correct a typo in the description and to reformat the text to current standards

SK 34 SW
3/54

PARISH OF KEDLESTON
KEDLESTON PARK
The Sulphur Bath

13.2.67

II*

Bath house. 1759-62 possibly by Robert Adam.Red brick, cement rendered. Welsh slate roof. Moulded cornice. Single storey. Three bay symmetrical south elevation. The centre part is open and supported on paired columns with foliage and egg and dart capitals. The entablature is missing. Iron railings between the columns. Flanked by pedimented pavilions, each with a single blind round arch, with entablature above. End walls have similar blind arches with Diocletian windows in the upper part. North elevation has a half domed apse to the centre part and round arches with Diocletian windows to the pavilions. Inside, apse to rear with four steps down to the spring. Side walls have blind round arches with raised and fielded panelled doors opening into the plunge baths, with steps down on two sides. Now semi-derelict.

Listing NGR: SK3181140531

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Legacy System number:
78893
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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