Comment

Representation ID: 8276

Received: 05/08/2021

Respondent: Mr Neil Blackhall

I would like to nominate The Bath House, Cream Cottage, Main Road, Claybrooke Parva as a Non-designated Heritage Asset, please see attached Word document for a summary and the other attachments for supporting information.
Built in the second quarter of the 19th Century. A rare and unusual example of a 19th Century communal bathing facility (see attached photographs).
The bath house is a brick building with a clay tile roof, measuring 7 x 3 metres. It has two bays inside it, the first of which is a heated chamber 2.5 metres square, with a cast iron fireplace. The second room is a bath chamber, which contains a 2.9 x 1.7 metre plunge pool. The pool has four steps leading down to it and is surrounded by slabs of what may be marble.
Believed to have been used by the pupils of Milton College (private school for boys, Ullesthorpe) to bath in each Sunday before attending church.

Reason for nomination
Not explicitly mentioned in the listing of Cream Cottage - see CREAM COTTAGE, Claybrooke Parva - 1209155 | Historic England and the use and character of the Bath house building is completely distinct from the principal listed residential building.
A rare and unusual example of a 19th Century communal bathing house.


1 HER reference MLE10602
2 Claybrooke Parva, Bath House, Cream Cottage, Leicestershire - The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings Archives (spab.org.uk)