Cold Bath House to North of Fish Pond to South West of the Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 July 1992. Landscape feature.
Cold Bath House to North of Fish Pond to South West of the Lodge
- WRENN ID
- third-chimney-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 July 1992
- Type
- Landscape feature
- Address
- Cold Bath House to North of Fish Pond to South West of the Lodge, Richard's Castle (Shropshire)
- OS grid reference
- SO 498 722
- Coordinates
- 52.34559, -2.73782
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cold Bath House is a landscape feature that includes a plunge bath, dating from the late 18th century to the early 19th century. It is constructed of rubble stone and has a three-bay facade for the changing room and plunge bath, built against a natural bank.
The exterior features retaining walls on each side, with stone steps located behind the wall on the right. The central doorway consists of a boarded and ledged round-headed door set within a round-arched ashlar surround, complete with a pendant keystone. The flanking windows have projecting sills and round arches, also adorned with pendant keystones. Projecting courses create a cornice beneath a coped parapet, which returns to enclose a small terrace. The retaining walls splay forward and ramp down on either side.
Inside, there is a lobby entrance leading to brick arch-vaulted rooms on each side. The changing room on the left features a niche on the back wall, while the plunge bathroom includes stone steps that lead down.
Local climate
Cold Bath House to North of Fish Pond to South West of the Lodge receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings