Public Baths is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1986. Public baths.
Public Baths
- WRENN ID
- vacant-lime-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bradford
- Constituency
- Keighley and Ilkley MP: Robbie Moore (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 December 1986
- Type
- Public baths
- Address
- Public Baths, Albert Street, Keighley
- OS grid reference
- SE 059 413
- Coordinates
- 53.86838, -1.91105
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The public baths in Keighley were built in the late 19th century, with an addition made in 1914. The structure features rusticated stone and a Welsh slate roof. The main block is designed in a High Victorian style and consists of two storeys with an asymmetrical facade that has four bays. The first and third bays project forward and are gabled, while the second bay has two gables and the fourth bay has one gable.
There are two pointed-arch doorways in the second bay, framed by projecting surrounds with acanthus-leaf capitals on square piers, moulded arches, roundels in the spandrels, and acanthus-leaf cornices. The windows, which vary in size with one, two, or three lights, are set in quoined surrounds and feature acanthus leaf capitals on colonettes. Windows located below the gables are topped with roundels that have multi-foiled lights, all beneath pointed-arch hoodmoulds. A chamfered band runs above the ground floor and at the eaves, complemented by ashlar coping and two surviving iron finials. A ridge stack is located to the left.
The 1914 addition to the right is a single storey with three bays, featuring a corner bay topped with a spire. It includes a pointed-arch doorway with a coat of arms above, set in a projecting, gabled surround, and has ashlar coping. Inside, the main entrance doors are adorned with stained glass.
Local climate
Public Baths sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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