These baths were opened in 1939, as part of wider socal reforms which aimed to improve conditions for miners and their families. The pithead baths building was designed in the International style, associated with the 1930s Bauhaus school of architecture. The visual impact of such a building on the contrasting visual landscape must have been immense.
Now a rare example of a structure built for this purpose, pithead baths were once common in every coalfeld community.