Wallsend, Lawson Street, Public Baths

HER Number:
7370

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Wallsend, Lawson Street, Public Baths

Place:
Wallsend

Map Sheet:
NZ36NW

Class:
Recreational

Site Type: Broad:
Swimming Pool

Site Type: Specific:
Indoor Swimming Pool

General Period:
20TH CENTURY

Specific Period:
Early 20th Century 1901 to 1932

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Public Baths. Circa 1908 by E.F.W Liddle and P.L. Brown for the Borough of Wallsend. Sandstone ashlar and brick with ashlar dressings. Restrined Baroque style. Office block at left. Bath hall at right. Rusticated ground floor. Round-arched entrances for MEN and WOMEN flank Diocletian window in projecting central bay. Renewed glazing. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
430410

Northing:
566420

Grid Reference:
NZ430410566420

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 7/160; Lynn Pearson, 2010, Played in Tyne and Wear, charting the heritage of people at play, p 22-23, 173; Archaeological Research Services, 2015, Former Wallsend Baths, Wallsend, Newcastle upon Tyne - Building Recording