The Bath House Approximately 4oo Metres South East of Basford Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1986. Recreational building. 1 related planning application.
The Bath House Approximately 4oo Metres South East of Basford Hall
- WRENN ID
- rough-kitchen-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Constituency
- Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1986
- Type
- Recreational building
- Address
- The Bath House Approximately 4oo Metres South East of Basford Hall, ST13 7ER
- OS grid reference
- SJ 990 511
- Coordinates
- 53.05791, -2.01553
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bath House, located approximately 400 meters southeast of Basford Hall, is a recreational building designed to resemble a folly. It was built in the early 19th century and has undergone minor alterations in the 20th century. The structure features rock-faced coursed stone and a steeply-pitched shaped tile roof, with roll-crested verge parapets supported by corbelled kneelers. There are twin-shafted stacks at the left end and a ridge stack on the right. A string course runs at the first-floor level, and the building has a two-storey plus attic height with a three-window front.
On the left side, there is a small slightly projecting gable that includes a single-light attic window above a labelled two-light stone mullioned window on the first floor. The larger projecting gable on the right has a single-light upper attic window above two and three-light windows below. Both gables feature Tudor-arch entrances with 20th-century glazed doors. The wide central recess contains a four-light stone mullion window on the first floor above a taller transomed window on the ground floor, with single-light transomed windows at each end of the building.
At the rear and northeast, which is less visible from the approach, there are crenellated square and octagonal towers facing a small lake. This unusual planning appears to have been intended to create a view that was never fully realized. The interior of the building once included a heated swimming pool and service quarters for guests of Basford Hall, the residence of the Sneyd family.
Local climate
The Bath House Approximately 4oo Metres South East of Basford Hall receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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