The Public Baths were built in 1924, and opened on Saturday 27 March 1926, their construction having been sponsored by Sutton Colliery Miners Welfare. The money for the project had been raised by allocating 'one penny per tonne of coal' over a period of four years by the Sutton Miners. The architect was Mr L Dodsley of Sutton-in-Ashfield, grandson of the Squire of Skegby Hall, and the contractor was Mr R Moore of Mansfield. The building was officially handed over to the Sutton-in-Ashfield District Council in 1927. According to historic documents submitted by the applicant, in 1926 the area around the 75 x 35 ft pool was floored with 'granolithic' flooring, and the pool was constructed with concrete and lined with glazed brickwork. The two-tier balcony round all four sides of the pool at first floor level survives. Mr Dodsley does not have any listed buildings attributed to him.
The two-storey, five-bay, building is constructed of red brick, with stone dressings and a pitched roof covered with clay tiles. The principal elevation is dominated by a central, projecting, stone-faced bay containing the date stone '1924' which is flanked by stone-coped gables featuring the words 'PUBLIC BATHS'. The building is present on the 1938 OS map, marked as 'swimming baths'. It was almost doubled in size in 1966 by an extension to the west. It is understood that several years after the Public Baths opened, the building was made multi-purpose through the employment of a removable maple floor laid over the pool. The space was used for exhibitions and events, and soldiers were billeted there during the Second World War.
The Public Baths, although of local interest as a civic amenity, lacks architectural interest in the street-front façade, and its integrity as an inter-war swimming baths has been severely compromised by the 1960s extension to the west. The Public Baths in Sutton-in-Ashfield are much altered, and do not feature any of the ancillary features of listed examples. Sutton-in-Ashfield Public Baths therefore do not have the architectural and historic interest in a national context required to merit listing. (1)

Historic England, 2021, National Record of Historic Environment (Digital archive). SNT5271.

<1> M.J. Thompson, 2010, English Heritage Listing File - Public Baths (Published document). SNT6171.