Bishopwearmouth, High Street West, public baths and washhouse

HER Number:
15799

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Bishopwearmouth, High Street West, public baths and washhouse

Place:
Bishopwearmouth

Map Sheet:
NZ35NE

Class:
Health and Welfare

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Baths

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Moved Structure

Description:
Built in 1858. In 1890 the Borough surveyor R.S. Rounthwaite remodelled and expanded the High Street public baths in classical style. It was the first public baths facility in the north east to be financed under the 1846 Baths and Wash Houses Act. The building has now gone, demolished in 1988, but its impressive portico entrance and clock were carefully dismantled and neatly incorporated into the modern Inland Revenue offices of Gilbridge House in 1992.

Easting:
3938

Northing:
5709

Grid Reference:
NZ39385709

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
http://www.macq.org.uk/the-history/gilbridge-house/; Lynn Pearson, 2010, Played in Tyne and Wear - Charting the heritage of people at play, p 76