HEATH TOWN PUBLIC BATHS AND LIBRARY

HEATH TOWN PUBLIC BATHS AND LIBRARY, TUDOR ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1384205
Date first listed:: 14-Sep-2000
List Entry Name:: HEATH TOWN PUBLIC BATHS AND LIBRARY
Statutory Address:: HEATH TOWN PUBLIC BATHS AND LIBRARY, TUDOR ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1384205
Date first listed:: 14-Sep-2000
List Entry Name:: HEATH TOWN PUBLIC BATHS AND LIBRARY
Statutory Address 1:: HEATH TOWN PUBLIC BATHS AND LIBRARY, TUDOR ROAD

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: HEATH TOWN PUBLIC BATHS AND LIBRARY, TUDOR ROAD

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

District:: City of Wolverhampton (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SO9306699676

Details

SO 99 NW 895-1/5/10037 14-SEP-00

TUDOR ROAD Heath Town (West side) Heath Town Public Baths and Library

II

Public baths and library. 1930-31; by H.B. Robinson, Borough Surveyor and Engineer. Pink and orange fletton bricks with moulded concrete dressings. Corrugated asbestos roofs. PLAN: Library on first floor across the front with loggia below with central entrance to vestibule of swimming baths; main bath at centre with childrens' baths on north side and public wash-house on the south side; wash-house converted into a gymnasium. Free Classical style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys 1:1:5:1:1 bay east front; centre five bays have arcaded loggia with moulded concrete arches and piers and central doorway with broad bolection moulded concrete architrave with arms above flanked by volutes; 3-light concrete mullion windows above with leaded panes and large multi-pane wooden windows set back within loggia on ground floor; projecting bays left and right with broad bolection moulded architraves to library doors with panels above with volutes either side; panelled double doors; concrete parapet with plain medallions. Porches to childrens' baths and public wash-house on north and south sides. Rear [W] has wide gable end of main baths with large 3-light segmantal-headed window and raised apex to clerestorey. INTERIOR: Entrance vestibule to baths has glazed wall tiles and glazed screen to kiosk with leaded panes; main baths has changing cubicles either side, glazed tile lavatories at west end and reinforced concrete parabolic arch roof. Childrens' bath has later flat roof. Public wash-house converted to gymnasium. Library has stairs with iron balustrades, glazed screens and a panelled desk.

Listing NGR: SO9306699676

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Legacy System number:: 484638
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.