Public Baths is a Grade II listed building in the Sefton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 January 1986. Public baths. 1 related planning application.
Public Baths
- WRENN ID
- stark-pedestal-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sefton
- Constituency
- Bootle MP: Peter Dowd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 January 1986
- Type
- Public baths
- Address
- Public Baths, Balliol Road, L20 7EH
- OS grid reference
- SJ 341 947
- Coordinates
- 53.44501, -2.99342
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Public Baths built in 1888 by G. Heaton. The building features rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and a hipped slate roof. It is two storeys high with five bays and has one-storey, two-bay wings on either side. At the rear, there are two large gabled wings, with the left gable having been rebuilt. The structure has a cornice over the ground floor, a top cornice, and a parapet adorned with ball finials. Flat pilasters frame the windows, which also have flanking pilasters and transoms. The end bays contain two-light windows, while the central canted bay has one, two, and one-light windows. Round-headed entrances flank the central bay. The parapet features a central panel and end panes with pediments and flanking scrolls; the central panel is inscribed "PUBLIC/BATHS," and the flanking ones display the arms of Lancaster and Bootle. The flanking bays have two-light windows. The right gable is designed in a Dutch style, complete with ball finials, an elliptical-headed window, and flanking niches. The left gable is from the 20th century. There is a rear stack with machicolations at the top. This building is included for its group value.
Local climate
Public Baths sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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 — 1 application
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