Former Victoria Baths
FORMER VICTORIA BATHS, NEVILL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379728
- Date first listed:
- 10-Aug-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Former Victoria Baths
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER VICTORIA BATHS, NEVILL STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379728
- Date first listed:
- 10-Aug-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Former Victoria Baths
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER VICTORIA BATHS, NEVILL STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- FORMER VICTORIA BATHS, PROMENADE
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:
- FORMER VICTORIA BATHS, NEVILL STREET
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER VICTORIA BATHS, PROMENADE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Sefton (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 33575 17583
Details
SOUTHPORT
SD3317NE PROMENADE
664-1/9/155 (East side)
10/08/76 Former Victoria Baths
GV II
Includes: Former Victoria Baths NEVILL STREET.
Public baths, now sports club, night club and public house.
Opened 1839; remodelled c1870; altered.
Sandstone ashlar, roofs of slate, corrugated sheet and glass.
STYLE: French Classical.
PLAN: Large irregular rectangular plan, with entrance range on
west side.
EXTERIOR: 2-storey, 3-window entrance block flanked by
single-storey, 6-bay side wings. The entrance block
(remodelled c1870), with banded corner pilasters, cornice,
parapet and 2-stage pavilion roof, has 2 round-headed doorways
with paired Roman Doric columns and double pedimented
entablature. One round-headed window between them. At first
floor (reversing this arrangement) a central window framed by
paired columns and a segmental pediment flanked by plain
windows with paired pilasters over the outer ground-floor
columns.
The pavilion roof is raised over the centre, with a bull's-eye
window to the front, and both this and the lower side roofs
now lack their former ornamental iron cresting.
The side wings have round-headed openings divided by paired
pilasters.
Right-hand return (to Nevill Street) of 3 bays in similar
style, has similar Classical entrance in centre.
INTERIOR: altered and remodelled, including C20 swimming pool.
Listing NGR: SD3357517583
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 479133
- 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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