Public Lavatories is a Grade II listed building in the North Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 April 1999. Public lavatories. 2 related planning applications.
Public Lavatories
- WRENN ID
- sharp-merlon-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Somerset
- Constituency
- Weston-super-Mare MP: Dan Aldridge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 April 1999
- Type
- Public lavatories
- Address
- Public Lavatories, Marine Parade, Weston-Super-Mare, BS23 1BE
- OS grid reference
- ST 317 612
- Coordinates
- 51.34598, -2.98161
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The public lavatories, dated 1905, are located on Marine Parade in Weston Super Mare and have been partly converted into a café and shop. The building features roughcast and applied timber-framing on a stone plinth, with a felt-covered gable-ended roof that has deep bracketed eaves and louvred ridge ventilators. At the center, there is an octagonal cupola topped with a lead-clad dome, a tall tapered finial, and a wrought-iron weathervane.
The structure is rectangular, with its back facing the beach to the west and a central portico on the east front. The lower flat-roofed north and south end ranges, as well as the range across the back, were likely added later. The north part of the original building is now used as a café, while the north end range serves as a shop.
The exterior is single-storey and was originally symmetrical, featuring an 8:3:8 bay east front with thin applied framing and roughcast panels, with glazing on the right. The deep eaves are supported by shaped brackets, and the central gabled portico has a moulded plaster tympanum decorated with arabesque and strapwork motifs, as well as putti. This portico is supported by thin moulded cast-iron columns with ornate pierced cast-iron spandrels. The interior has been altered.
Local climate
Public Lavatories receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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