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Council looking for new development partner on scrapped transformation of listed Victorian baths

By 2025-12-19T13:03:00

Current Ladywell Playtower 2025 Lewisham Council

Conversion of Lewisham’s grade II-listed Ladywell Playtower into cinema fell through in September

Lewisham council has launched a search for a new development partner to save a dilapidated but grade II-listed former bathhouse after previous plans to transform the site into a cinema fell through.

Opened in 1884, Ladywell Playtower is one of London’s earliest surviving public baths, built in a brick gothic revival style with a distinctive round water tower which was originally topped with a conical roof.

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