Public Baths

NECHELLS PARK ROAD 1. 5104 Nechells B7 Public Baths SP 08 NE 7/72 II 2. Opened 1910, by Arthur Harrison. Brick with cream terracotta dressings. Two- storeyed centrepiece with single-storeyed wings; 6 bays. Centrepiece with, on the ground floor, casement windows divided by columns into a rhythm 2:3:2 and, on the first floor, a single casement window beneath a broad curved pediment in which are the arms of the City of Birmingham. Left and right of this, the entrances for Woman and Men within polygonal turrets terminating in open cupolas. Left and right again, the baths, lower and with casement windows divided by columns into triplets. On the right again, on the corner of Nechells Park Road and Aston Church Road, the 6th bay, with a triplet of casement windows surmounted by a curved pediment with obelisk.

Listing NGR: SP0928289201