The Clifton Spa Pump Room
THE CLIFTON SPA PUMP ROOM, PRINCES LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379950
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-2000
- List Entry Name:
- The Clifton Spa Pump Room
- Statutory Address:
- THE CLIFTON SPA PUMP ROOM, PRINCES LANE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379950
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-2000
- List Entry Name:
- The Clifton Spa Pump Room
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE CLIFTON SPA PUMP ROOM, PRINCES LANE
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:
- THE CLIFTON SPA PUMP ROOM, PRINCES LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Bristol (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 56641 72942
Details
ST5672NE PRINCES LANE
901-1/13/10078 The Clifton Spa Pump Room
GV II
Spa/Pump room. Built 1894, designed by Philip Monro for Sir George Newnes, the promoter of the scheme. Bath stone ashlar with a flat bitumen roof. Classical style. Single storey with a three bay Doric pilastrade on either side of the entrance bay, the original entrance portico having been removed. The entrance has caryatids supporting large scroll brackets which carry a broken pediment; this is attached to a rusticated frame with arched keyed head, the key carries up into a scroll in the pediment with the initials GN (Sir George Newnes). Each bay has a 2-light Italianate arched window with a roundel in the arch over arched lights, decorated spandrels and scrolled keystones. All the windows and the door were boarded up at the time of inspection (September 1999). Doric entablature and projecting cornice with acroteric. Roof not visible from
this level. The rear elevation at higher level shows only a panelled wall and a flat roof. The interior is richly decorated in the late Victorian theatrical manner of such as Frank Matcham. Single large room approached by a marble staircase from the hotel. Grey marble Corinthian columns (now mostly painted) on panelled wooden plinths, some damaged, stand forward from the walls forming 7 x 3 bays with the centre bay wider on both short and long walls. The south
wall has three tall windows on either side of the entrance door. The east wall has two panels flanked by two pedimented doorcases. The north wall has three arched niches with female head keystones on either side of an apsed centrepiece for the spa, this has a semi-circular arch. The west wall has the old entrance to the Clifton Rocks Railway in the corner. Elaborate plaster cornices and decorations to the ceiling beams. Plaster ceiling roses and three vents for gasoliers. All the flooring had been removed at the time of inspection. Cinema projection room at north west end as well as the entrance to the Clifton Rocks Railway, and stair at south east end.
History: The Spa, which was fed by a deep bore hole to the Hotwells 70m below, functioned until 1922, the room was then used as a cinema until 1928 and as a ballroom until the 1960's.
References: Historical material supplied by the Clifton and Hotwells Improvement Society.
Listing NGR: ST5664372934
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 479414
- 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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