Visiting the Strand Lane ‘ Roman ’ Baths

Visiting Strand Lane ‘Roman’ baths

Today the baths are owned by the National Trust and managed by Westminster City Council. If you’d like to visit, you will need to make an appointment through the council. Please note, these are not the Roman Baths in the city of Bath - we are located in London.

Please note that viewings are only available from Monday to Friday during the following times and require at least one weeks’ advance notice. 

April to September: 12.00 – 4.00pm
October to March: 12.00 – 3.00pm

Please arrange your visit by emailing dcreese@westminster.gov.uk or calling 07966 189789.

 

Things to see inside the baths

The bath building of the Strand Lane 'Roman' Baths consists of the bath chamber and a long, narrow entrance corridor running alongside it, with steps up to a door out into Strand Lane. 

The bath chamber is covered by a full brick and stone vault and contains the bath and a 1920s settling tank built at the eastern end. The bath is made of shallow, wide Tudor bricks, with some patched repairs made from frogged bricks dating after 1750. The brickwork of the walls and vaults hasn’t been officially dated, but most probably dates from the 18th century.

Traces of a long history

There are clear signs that the remaining parts of the baths were once part of a larger complex:

• There are blocked doorways at the ends of both the bath chamber and the entrance corridor, and a third in the south wall of the corridor.
• Traces of older decorative schemes remain in the blue and white ‘Dutch’ tiles on the corridor wall, around the door and hatch surrounds and in the stone and marble slabs now resting on the settling tank.
• A damaged wall-plaque, identifying the bath as ‘nearly 2000 years old’ and a relic of the days of ‘Titus or Vespasian.’