The Wells And Campden Baths And Wash Houses

The Wells and Campden Baths and Wash Houses are former baths and wash-houses built in 1888 by Henry S Legg. The building was later converted to housing around 1985. Constructed of stock brick with a tiled hipped roof, it features a Flemish gable to the penultimate left-hand bay and a tall brick chimney stack with a stepped brick cornice on the left-hand return. The building has five bays of nine windows, and the right-hand bay is canted. A round-arched entrance, within a gabled bay, is topped by a hood supported on tall brackets, a fanlight with a keystone, and a panelled door. Paired, cambered arch, two-pane sashes are present in the left-hand ground floor bay and all of the first floor. Ground floor windows include two- and three-light sashes with stone lintels and mullions. A stone plaque inscribed "The Wells and Campden Baths and Wash-houses 1888" is located at first-floor level beneath a sill cornice. A carved coat of arms is set within the gable. The interiors were not inspected. The building was designed for the Wells and Campden Charity, a significant local landowner. Its location, close to the original Chalybeate spring, is notable, and its placement concludes the view at the end of Flask Walk within a group of listed buildings.