Lymington Sea Water Baths is a Grade II listed building in the New Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 2013. Baths. 3 related planning applications.
Lymington Sea Water Baths
- WRENN ID
- late-facade-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- New Forest
- Constituency
- New Forest West MP: Sir Desmond Swayne (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 2013
- Type
- Baths
- Address
- Lymington Sea Water Baths, SO41 3SE
- OS grid reference
- SZ 333 949
- Coordinates
- 50.75285, -1.52836
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Lymington Sea Water Baths, constructed around 1930, are shown in their current outline on the 1871 Ordnance Survey map. They were purchased and improved by Lymington Corporation, with the official opening taking place on May 3, 1933. The architect is not recorded, but it is likely that the Borough Surveyor was involved, similar to other contemporary open-air baths. The post-1933 pool-side structures are not of special interest.
The baths are made of shuttered concrete and feature a roughly rectangular shape, aligned from north-east to south-west, tapering towards the south-west. The walls measure 100 yards in length and 50 yards in width, and there is no bottom as the baths are filled directly from the sea and river.
Concrete steps with tubular metal handrails are located along the north-west and south-east sides. On the south side, there are two rectangular pits built into the edge: a sand pit and a children's paddling pool. About two-thirds along the eastern side is a concrete breakwater that stretches partly across the baths, consisting of a concrete platform supported on four concrete piers. Additionally, there are two metal aerating fountains in the pool.
Local climate
Lymington Sea Water Baths receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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