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

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