Public Baths

SE3406SW BARNSLEY YORK STREET (west side), Barnsley 9/78 Public Baths, including No 2 - II Public swimming baths and former caretaker's house now private house. 1872 by Wade and Turner. Ashlar front, dressed stone sides and rear. Welsh slate roof. Two storeys and attic. Entrance block with pool at 90° to rear. Entrance block, including house: symmetrical 5-bay facade. Bays 2, 3 and 4 break forward, bay 3 further. Ground floor: single-storey, gabled porches to bays 2 and 4 have round-arched portals with pilaster jambs, engaged colonnettes and pointed hoodmould. 2-light segmental-headed sash windows with engaged colonnette mullions on raised, bracketed sills. Similar round-arched windows to 1st floor with pointed hoodmould, but small single lights to bays 2 and 4. Central bay is gabled with small attic window. Deep Lombard frieze. Parapet, partly round-arched with corbelled round corner piers. Gable copings. Tall ornamental stack to right gable. Small central pyramidal roof. Rear elevation (bath building) has 3 blind panels. Left return has 5½ bays of blind panels. At rear to right an addition has tall, tapering ornamental chimney, square at base, octagonal at top with bands, deep moulded cornice and ashlar cap.

Interior: the 20 yard pool and side cubicles have been refitted, but original cast-iron columns and brackets (5 to sides and 2 to ends) support the former spectators' gallery, now boxed in by lowered ceiling.

The baths were opened on June 15th 1874.

Listing NGR: SE3412406192