Description

LEEDS

SE23NW BROAD LANE, Bramley
714-1/5/545 (North West side)
Bramley Baths

GV II

Public swimming baths. 1904, restored 1992. Coursed gritstone
and ashlar, slate roof, part glazed. Corner site with
2-storey, 3-bay entrance block and single-storey baths complex
with chimney. Classical style.
The entrance block has double doors and fanlight under ornate
scrolled hood supported by console brackets; flanking square
windows, 4-light mullioned window right, 3 two-light windows
to 1st floor; Dutch gable over bays 1 and 2 with Leeds coat of
arms and 'PUBLIC BATHS 'in recessed panels; owl and ball
finials, hipped roof and corniced end stacks. Moulded strings
at 1st-floor level are continued across the single-storey
range at window lintel and wall top levels.
To right of the entrance: gateway with double wooden gates,
square piers with cornice and ball finials; to right again a
2-storey gabled engine-house block with segmental-arched
entrance, double wooden doors, wrought-iron scrolled panel in
overlight, round-arched window in gable above; to rear the
tapered square chimney has moulded stone brackets and deep
cornice.
The baths complex to left of entrance has 2 two-light windows
in ornate pedimented surrounds with aprons below and small
moulded round-arched pediment rising above parapet.
On left return (Calverley Lane) there are 2 projecting
entrance bays with keyed round arches, pediments with scrolled
plaques, ball finials and pyramid roofs, 4-light mullioned
window with pediment between. The gable of the swimming baths
roof rises to rear and has a keyed round window, scrolled
kneelers, gable coping, raised triangular pediment over a
carved band with central plaque and scrolls.
INTERIOR: not inspected but reputed to contain fine stained
glass, tiling and decorative features retained during
extensive restoration.
8 public baths were built in Leeds during 1899-1904; this is
the only complete example surviving.

Listing NGR: SE2387635391

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Bramley Baths official website
• Wikidata Q26547370

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