Public Baths
PUBLIC BATHS, UNION STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375957
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Public Baths
- Statutory Address:
- PUBLIC BATHS, UNION STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/07252/36
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375957
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Public Baths
- Statutory Address 1:
- PUBLIC BATHS, UNION STREET
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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:
- PUBLIC BATHS, UNION STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ4109166342
Details
CHESTER CITY (EM)
SJ4166 UNION STREET
1932-1/6/271 (North side)
10/01/72 Public Baths
GV II
Public swimming and slipper baths. 1898-1901. By John Douglas.
For Chester City Council. Stone-dressed red brick and timber
framing with plaster panels; cast-iron and steel internally;
grey-green slate roofs.
PLAN/EXTERIOR: partly 2 storeys, partly one storey: the front
to Union Street has a symmetrical 2-storey entrance and
administrative block with caretaker's flat with single-storey
slipper-bath wing, left, and 2 swimming baths behind;
boiler-house at rear, left of larger bath.
5 stone steps to pair of recessed entrances, each having
replaced double doors; between the entrances a pair of
ogee-headed leaded lights, stone-panel above with City arms
and motto; a leaded light in each side-wall of each entry. The
wing left of entrances has alternating single and paired
lights, under 3 stone-coped gables. The first floor has a
mullioned 4-light leaded casement to each side of a canted
5-light mullioned oriel, leaded, in a jettied timber-framed
range above the entrances; a brick chimney, projecting on
corbels, to each side has a plinthed stack with separated
round flues, spiral and chevron moulded.
The right side to Bath Street has 2-storey end-gable to the
front wing, the upper storey timber-framed; a low linking bay,
then the side of panelled brickwork to the smaller swimming
bath, which has a full-length roof-lantern.
The rear to Forest Street has the gable ends to both swimming
baths similarly-roofed, with lanterns.
The boiler house has a tapered octagonal chimney on a square
stone-capped plinth; the facade to Union Street and the
swimming baths behind are not unified in style or materials.
INTERIOR: the swimming baths have iron or steel trusses. The
larger bath has a gallery to sides and ends on arcade with
cast-iron columns and fretted spandrels.
(Hubbard E: The Work of John Douglas: London: 1991-: 196-7;
270).
Listing NGR: SJ4108966341
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469936
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hubbard, E, The Work of John Douglas, (2013), 196-7, 270
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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