DARWIN'S BATH AT SK 096100 is a Grade II listed building in the Lichfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 February 1964. Bath house.
DARWIN'S BATH AT SK 096100
- WRENN ID
- long-newel-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lichfield
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 February 1964
- Type
- Bath house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SK 01 SE BURNTWOOD C.P. ABNALLS LANE SK 096100 (south side)
2/2 Darwin's Bath at SK 096100 (formerly 27.2.64 listed as Bath House, Home Farm) - II
Bath house. Reputedly early to mid-C18 base with a superstructure of circa 1890 and C20. Sandstone base with brick walls and segmental corrugated iron roof. Rectangular in plan approx. 3m x 10m. The base is all that remains of the sandstone tank bought in 1779 by Erasmus Darwin from Thomas Weld. The enclosing brick walls (approx. 1.8m high) and access steps must be Darwin's improvement and the canopy placed later for protection. The bath is sited in a hollow at the head of a stream close to Abnalls Cottage (q.v.) which Darwin used as a convalescence base for his patients, the bath being part of a curative system.
Listing NGR: SK0964610018
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