Former Tottenham Public Baths is a Grade II listed building in the Haringey local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1988. Public baths.
Former Tottenham Public Baths
- WRENN ID
- over-wall-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Haringey
- Constituency
- Tottenham MP: Mr David Lammy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1988
- Type
- Public baths
- Address
- Former Tottenham Public Baths, Town Hall Approach Road, N15 4RY
- OS grid reference
- TQ 336 893
- Coordinates
- 51.58759, -0.07236
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Former Tottenham Public Baths, built in 1905 by A S Taylor and R Jemmett, is now a community hall and public baths. This building is designed in the Edwardian Baroque style and features English bond red brick with Portland stone bands and dressings, along with hipped Welsh slate roofs and brick stacks topped with moulded stone caps. It stands three storeys tall and has a 2:3:2 window arrangement, with a taller central block that is set forward.
The central block's ground floor is made of ashlar and includes rusticated Tuscan pilasters and semi-circular arches with prominent keystones. This frames a central window flanked by original half-glazed double doors on the left and mid-20th century double doors on the right, both set in panelled reveals. The ground floor also features 9-pane sash windows and a mid-20th century door on the right, all within a square-headed rusticated architrave. The first floor has 12-pane sashes set in eared architraves beneath pulvinated friezes, with cornices on the outer bays and pediments at the centre. The second floor has 9-pane sashes also set in eared architraves.
A modillioned cornice runs along the top, with an open pediment over the central bay that contains a semi-circular arched window with a prominent keystone. The original rainwater heads feature modillioned cornices and ball pendants. A central moulded string course continues beneath the parapets of the two outer blocks, which have rusticated segmental arches over half-glazed double doors on the left and an open pediment above a 9-pane sash on the right. The pool roof includes a louvred ventilator and glazed strip lights, while a chimney for the boiler house is located at the rear.
Inside, there are offices at the front of two pools, with one pool now converted into a community hall. This building is one of three municipal structures originally interconnected by iron gateways, constructed for Tottenham Borough Council.
Local climate
Former Tottenham Public Baths sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 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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