Survey Data
Reg No
20514223
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Social
Original Use
Building misc
In Use As
Restaurant
Date
1870 - 1900
Coordinates
167563, 71603
Date Recorded
12/07/1994
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced six-bay two-storey former Turkish Baths, c. 1885; in use as a restaurant and also as offices having separate entrances. Roof not visible for inspection, rendered chimney stack with octagonal yellow clay pots. Balustrade and dentil cornice to parapet, having a plain frieze and string course. Painted render finish to upper floor, having recessed round headed openings with moulded archivolts and keystone detail. Windows are replacement uPVC. Dentil cornice to ground floor, having rusticated pilasters to ground floor square headed openings. Tripartite entrance screen arrangement to the left hand side of the building having decorative cast iron Corinthian columns, and pierced cast iron panels to and over the partially timber panelled entrance doors. Round headed single opening to right having two panels to spandrel, a plain fanlight, and a timber panelled door.
Appraisal
Distinctive Victorian building retaining characteristic decorative external elements such as the cast iron columns flanking the entrance, and cornices to the ground floor and parapet. Significant in its own right, and also as former Turkish Baths.