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
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lichfield
- Constituency
- Lichfield MP: Dave Robertson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 February 1964
- Type
- Bath house
- Address
- Darwin's Bath at Sk 096100, Abnalls Lane, Burntwood
- OS grid reference
- SK 096 100
- Coordinates
- 52.68778, -1.85873
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Darwin's Bath is a bath house located on Abnalls Lane in Burntwood, reputedly dating from the early to mid-18th century for its base, with a superstructure added around 1890 and further modifications in the 20th century. The structure features a sandstone base with brick walls and a segmental corrugated iron roof, measuring approximately 3 meters by 10 meters in plan. The sandstone tank, which was purchased in 1779 by Erasmus Darwin from Thomas Weld, is the original base of the bath. The enclosing brick walls, approximately 1.8 meters high, and the access steps are believed to be improvements made by Darwin, while a later canopy was added for protection. The bath is situated in a hollow at the head of a stream, near Abnalls Cottage, which Darwin used as a convalescence base for his patients, with the bath being part of a curative system.
Local climate
Darwin's Bath at Sk 096100 receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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