Bathing House at Pentillie Quay and Quay is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1987. Bathing house.
Bathing House at Pentillie Quay and Quay
- WRENN ID
- last-grate-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 October 1987
- Type
- Bathing house
- Address
- Bathing House at Pentillie Quay and Quay, Pillaton
- OS grid reference
- SX 411 646
- Coordinates
- 50.45968, -4.23917
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The bathing house at Pentillie Quay, built around 1850, incorporates features from the 17th century. It is constructed from slatestone rubble with granite dressings and has a tiled roof featuring scalloped banding, crested ridge tiles, and gable ends topped with spike finials. A rear lateral stack serves the building. The quay itself is made of slatestone rubble.
This single-storey bathing house has a rectangular plan and is situated on a quay that extends into the river. The main room is heated from the rear stack. The exterior presents a symmetrical front with a central gabled porch supported by plain chamfered granite piers. The porch features an inner granite doorway with a 4-centred arch, which is chamfered and stopped, and has a studded door. On either side of the porch are small 2-light granite windows with casements, and above them is a gabled dormer. All gables are adorned with spike finials.
The left gable end has a 3-light granite window with diamond leaded lights and chamfered granite mullions, while the right gable end features a large 4-light window with chamfered granite mullions and leaded lights, along with external sliding shutters. There is also a small single light window with a triangular head in the gable. The rear of the building has an external stack with a brick shaft.
Inside, the bathing house has a 5-bay roof supported by principal rafters, collars, and braces, with trefoils in the spandrels. The interior includes a wooden frieze with quatrefoils and dado panelling, as well as a granite fireplace with a flat arch and roll moulding. The quay has a rectangular plan and is characterized by battered slatestone rubble walls.
Local climate
Bathing House at Pentillie Quay and Quay sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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