Description

CAMDEN

TQ2685NE FLASK WALK
798-1/27/477 (North side)
The Wells and Campden Baths and Wash
Houses

GV II

Former baths and wash-houses. 1888. By Henry S Legg; converted
to housing c1985. Stock brick with tiled hipped roof having a
Flemish gable to the penultimate left hand bay and tall brick
slab chimney-stack with stepped brick cornice on left hand
return. 5 bays of 9 windows. 2 storeys. Right hand bay canted.
Round-arched entrance, in gabled bay, with hood on tall
brackets, fanlight with keystone and panelled door. Paired
cambered arch 2-pane sashes to left hand ground floor bay and
all of 1st floor. Ground floor with 2 and 3-light sashes
having stone lintels and mullions. Stone plaque inscribed "The
Wells and Campden Baths and Wash-houses 1888" at first floor
level beneath sill cornice. Carved coat of arms set within
gable.
INTERIORS: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the building was designed for the Wells and
Campden Charity, a major local landowner. An early surviving
baths building, it is significant and symbolic that a site was
chosen for it right by that of the original Chalybeate spring,
at the heart of an important group of listed buildings and
closing the view at the end of Flask Walk.

Listing NGR: TQ2657585897

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26406920

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Recommended Books

• 
  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)