Administrative Block: Public Baths, Finchley Road, Hampstead

See also Spalding and Auld for details of earlier baths on this site

PUBLIC BATHS, HAMPSTEAD - An official inspection by the Chairman and members of the Baths and Washhouse Committee of the Hampstead Vestry has just been made to the new administrative block of the public baths in Finchley-road. The old front portion of the baths, which included administrative block, seven slipper baths, and the Superintendent's apartments, was pulled down in consequence of the carrying out of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway works. The company paid the Vestry £8,300 as compensation, and gave them a larger area of ground for rebuilding upon, the new area being 5,056 Square feet in place of 2,000 Square feet. The new front is built in the English Renaissance style of an early type, from the designs of Messrs. Spalding & Cross, of Cheapside, at a cost of £8,995. The builder was Mr. T. Kingerlee, of Oxford. The new buildings include an entrance-hall, with central ticket-office leading to two entrances for men and women respectively, twenty-four slipper baths (in place of seven old ones), with enamelled slate divisions, Superintendent's and clerks' offices, board-room and waiting-room, and superintendent's apartments. The baths now include four swimming-baths and a number of slipper-baths. The old portion of the baths has been repaired and redecorated throughout. [Builder 30 April 1898 page 424]

HAMPSTEAD PUBLIC BATHS - On the 24th ult. Colonel C. H. Luard, R.E., on behalf of the Local Government Board, held a public inquiry into an application of the Hampstead Vestry for sanction to borrow £5,9501. in connection with the recent additions and fittings of the new public baths in Finchley-road, of which Messrs. Spalding & Cross were the architects. [Builder 1 April 1899 page 331]