Turkish bath
When his father died he returned to North Shields. In 1857, he designed what is thought to be the first Victorian Turkish bath in England at Tyneside House, home of local ironmaster George Crawshay, who had just returned from seeing the first Victorian Turkish bath in the British Isles being built at Blarney, near Cork in Ireland. In 1869, Shotton designed the Cecil Street Turkish Baths in North Shields, in which Crawshay had shares, and followed this in 1874 by designing one in Pilgrim Street for the Turkish Bath Company Limited.