Jubilee Pool is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1993. Seaside lido. 13 related planning applications.
Jubilee Pool
- WRENN ID
- gentle-cinder-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 March 1993
- Type
- Seaside lido
- Address
- Jubilee Pool, Battery Road, Penzance, TR18 4FF
- OS grid reference
- SW 476 298
- Coordinates
- 50.11476, -5.53149
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Jubilee Pool is a seaside lido built in 1935, designed by Captain F Latham, the Borough Engineer. It is made of painted concrete and has a triangular plan that extends into the sea. The structure features stepped terraces that descend from the entrances at road level, with square-headed openings leading to rows of dressing boxes built into the terraces. The concrete has been shaped to create a graceful series of Art Deco curves. This design was particularly striking and received much positive attention at the time. Jubilee Pool is now recognized as the finest surviving example of its type, apart from the Saltdean Lido in Brighton, which is also listed. In Europe, lidos like the Piscine Molitor in Paris, built in 1929, were among the first to adopt a modernist style, promoting the ideals of sunlight and physical fitness. The seaside lido represented a shift in sea bathing during the 1920s from a primarily health-focused activity to one of leisure, allowing local authorities to embrace Continental trends without the restrictions faced by more traditional pools.
Local climate
Jubilee Pool sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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 — 13 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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