North Frith House, Ladies Bathing Box is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1996. Bathing box.
North Frith House, Ladies Bathing Box
- WRENN ID
- vast-transept-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1996
- Type
- Bathing box
- Address
- North Frith House, Ladies Bathing Box, Ashes Lane, Hadlow
- OS grid reference
- TQ 609 502
- Coordinates
- 51.22854, 0.30415
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
North Frith House, Ladies Bathing Box is a ladies bathing box, either built around 1889 by George Friend or slightly earlier. It is a rectangular structure made of Kentish ragstone, attached to a circular cement bathing pool. The building features a tiled roof with ridge tiles and end finials. There are plank doors in the end gable, and on one side, steps lead down into the water behind a screen wall that has a pointed arch. Inside, there are wooden benches along two sides. This building is noted for its completeness and extreme rarity as a building type.
Local climate
North Frith House, Ladies Bathing Box receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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