Pump Room, Brine Baths And Reading Room

This building comprises a pump room, brine baths, and a reading room, now used as a house. It was constructed around 1862 by James Cranston. The building is a complex mix of materials, including orange brick, ashlar, yellow and blue brick dressings, applied timber framing with rendered infill, and iron spar construction with sheet iron cladding. The roof is clad in sheet iron, featuring scalloped edging pierced with quatrefoils, bracketed eaves, and iron fleur-de-lys finials at the ridge joints and ends.

The asymmetrical plan consists of a large assembly room range and a smaller brine baths range, aligned north/south and forming pointed arches in section, connected by a brick entrance hall. The pump room itself is octagonal and linked to the southwest corner of the assembly room by a small wing. The building is single-storied, with a plinth featuring a chamfered base and a dentil course decorating the upper part.

The main south elevation has a gabled end to the assembly room with a pair of pointed windows with scissor braces above four-light openings with transoms, and a small rectangular opening above. The gable end of the brine baths features a pair of two-light windows with splayed bases. The central entrance is marked by a round archway with an outer dentil course and inner courses of different widths and materials on a dentil "impost" course, and has half-glazed double doors. The pump room has applied timber framing with decorative bracing and a conical roof. A two-light window with cusped pointed lights is present on the southeast side. The connecting wing has a gabled roof and a similar two-light window, with a doorway on its northeast side. The roof cladding is now missing, and the pumping mechanism is visible within the roof space.

The interior features a partly barrel-vaulted roof and a large pointed archway on imposts, flanked by smaller four-centred arches on the east side of the assembly room. The Reading Room adjoins the east side of the brine baths, displaying orange brick with yellow brick dressings and a half-hipped slate roof with a central brick ridge stack. This section is two stories high with two bays, featuring yellow brick quoins and dentil courses above and below the first floor level. The south gable end has a ground floor and two first floor four-pane sash windows with cambered heads. A rear entrance serves the building.

The mineral springs on which these baths were based were discovered accidentally in 1839 during the sinking of a well. Following this discovery, the town experienced considerable development and prosperity in the mid-19th century and was subsequently named Tenbury Wells.