The Wells and Campden Baths and Wash Houses is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 January 1999. Bathhouse. 1 related planning application.
The Wells and Campden Baths and Wash Houses
- WRENN ID
- secret-lime-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Constituency
- Hampstead and Highgate MP: Tulip Siddiq (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 January 1999
- Type
- Bathhouse
- Address
- The Wells and Campden Baths and Wash Houses, Flask Walk, NW3 1ET
- OS grid reference
- TQ 265 858
- Coordinates
- 51.55777, -0.17553
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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.
Local climate
The Wells and Campden Baths and Wash Houses sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Radon risk assessment
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