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Latitude: 53.6505 / 53°39'1"N
Longitude: -3.0064 / 3°0'23"W
OS Eastings: 333575
OS Northings: 417583
OS Grid: SD335175
Mapcode National: GBR 7VF7.X3
Mapcode Global: WH861.SHKS
Plus Code: 9C5RMX2V+6C
Entry Name: Former Victoria Baths
Listing Date: 10 August 1976
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1379728
English Heritage Legacy ID: 479133
ID on this website: 101379728
Location: Southport, Sefton, Merseyside, PR9
County: Sefton
Electoral Ward/Division: Duke's
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Southport
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Merseyside
Church of England Parish: Southport Christ Church
Church of England Diocese: Liverpool
Tagged with: Public bath
SOUTHPORT
SD3317NE PROMENADE
664-1/9/155 (East side)
10/08/76 Former Victoria Baths
GV II
Includes: Former Victoria Baths NEVILL STREET.
Public baths, now sports club, night club and public house.
Opened 1839; remodelled c1870; altered.
Sandstone ashlar, roofs of slate, corrugated sheet and glass.
STYLE: French Classical.
PLAN: Large irregular rectangular plan, with entrance range on
west side.
EXTERIOR: 2-storey, 3-window entrance block flanked by
single-storey, 6-bay side wings. The entrance block
(remodelled c1870), with banded corner pilasters, cornice,
parapet and 2-stage pavilion roof, has 2 round-headed doorways
with paired Roman Doric columns and double pedimented
entablature. One round-headed window between them. At first
floor (reversing this arrangement) a central window framed by
paired columns and a segmental pediment flanked by plain
windows with paired pilasters over the outer ground-floor
columns.
The pavilion roof is raised over the centre, with a bull's-eye
window to the front, and both this and the lower side roofs
now lack their former ornamental iron cresting.
The side wings have round-headed openings divided by paired
pilasters.
Right-hand return (to Nevill Street) of 3 bays in similar
style, has similar Classical entrance in centre.
INTERIOR: altered and remodelled, including C20 swimming pool.
Listing NGR: SD3357517583
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