FORMER BATH CITY LAUNDRY

FORMER BATH CITY LAUNDRY, SWALLOW STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1395214
Date first listed:: 04-Aug-1975
List Entry Name:: FORMER BATH CITY LAUNDRY
Statutory Address:: FORMER BATH CITY LAUNDRY, SWALLOW STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1395214
Date first listed:: 04-Aug-1975
Date of most recent amendment:: 14-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: FORMER BATH CITY LAUNDRY
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER BATH CITY LAUNDRY, SWALLOW STREET

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:: FORMER BATH CITY LAUNDRY, SWALLOW STREET

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

District:: Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: ST 75072 64684

Details

SWALLOW STREET 656-1/41/1613 Former Bath City Laundry 05/08/75

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Laundry, now workshops. c1889. By Major Charles Davis, City architect. MATERIALS: Partly limestone ashlar, and partly coursed dressed stone, pantile roofs, water tank covered in corrugated asbestos sheeting. LOCATION: Rectangular site along Swallow Street and York Street. EXTERIOR: Single storey and attic, five bay front to York Street, Ionic pilastrade on ground floor with altered infill, door and arched windows. Upper floor has plain sashes between Doric pilasters, corresponding with the Douche and Massage Baths opposite (see Part of Queen's Bath, Stall Street). Entablature and cornice at first floor, dentil cornice with blocking at eaves. Corner doorway with paired Ionic pilasters, now glazed. Three bay front to Swallow Street, plain with small sash windows, plain. Further sections along Swallow Street in squared coursed stone, with variety of doors and windows. Baroque doorway with pediment on brackets, broken by achievement-of-arms, panelled double doors. Massive fluted ashlar chimney, given classical Baroque dressing, rising through arcaded square pavilion base, in centre of site. INTERIOR: Not inspected. HISTORY: Part of the great High Victorian programme of improvements to the baths area, the utilitarian institution of the City Laundry was located here in order to take advantage of nearby source of natural hot water, which carried to site over Swallow Street bridge. In response to its location, Davis produced an exceptionally opulent 'Free Renaissance' design that contrasts tellingly with the neighbouring Georgian public buildings. Listed together with `Part of the Queen's Bath' (qv). SOURCES: (Orbach J: Card Index of Bath Architects and Streets: 1978-).

Listing NGR: ST7507264684

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Legacy System number:: 510627
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.