Public Baths is a Grade II listed building in the North Tyneside local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1986. Public baths. 4 related planning applications.
Public Baths
- WRENN ID
- sunken-stair-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Tyneside
- Constituency
- Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend MP: Mary Glindon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 February 1986
- Type
- Public baths
- Address
- Public Baths, Lawson Steet, NE28 6PF
- OS grid reference
- NZ 304 664
- Coordinates
- 54.99149, -1.52605
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The public baths, built around 1908 by E.F.W. Liddle and P.L. Brown for the Borough of Wallsend, are designed in a restrained Baroque style using sandstone ashlar and brick with ashlar dressings. The building features an office block on the left that is two storeys high and has three bays, while the bath hall on the right is a tall single storey with one wide bay. The left part has a rusticated ground floor, with round-arched entrances for MEN and WOMEN flanking a Diocletian window in the projecting centre bay. The first floor has a tripartite window flanked by single windows in architraves, with renewed glazing. A top entablature and blocking course rest on rusticated pilasters of the centre bay and at the junction with the bath hall. The high ashlar plinth and rusticated angle pilasters frame the Diocletian window in the brick upper part of the bath hall, which is topped by a low, stone-coped gable.
Local climate
Public Baths receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
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