Monument record 1160/0/584 - Public baths, Cattle Market Road

Public baths built in the late 19th century by Phipps Breweries using waste hot water from the brewery. Demolished between 1925 and 1938.

{1-2} The baths are depicted on the 1885 map and on all editions until the 1938 map, by which time this block had been largely cleared.

{3} In 1876 Phipps Breweries opened public baths using waste hot water from the brewery. Initially planned just for the workers use, they were eventually given to the town.

{4} By 1891 the public swimming baths in Northampton, situated between Cattlemarket Road and Bridge Street, were worked in connection with the brewery opposite. The heat that was generated during fermentation and abstracted by the attemporators in the fermenting vessels, was transferred to the water utilised in the baths.

<1> Ordnance Survey Map (Scale/date), 1:500/1885 (Surveyed 1884) (Map). SNN112944.

<2> Ordnance Survey Map (Scale/date), 1:25"/1938 (Map). SNN112944.

<3> Brown M.; Willmott B., 1998, Brewed In Northants: A Directory Of Northamptonshire Brewers 1450-1998, p. 63 (Directory). SNN100669.

<4> Starmer G., 1970, Breweries in Northamptonshire, p.21 (Article). SNN111859.

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Mar 31 2026 10:05AM