Description

The folloing building shall be added to the list:-

PETERBOROUGH BISHOP'S ROAD
TL 19 NE
(south side)
SP/1071 The Lido
- II
Open air swimming pools, with changing rooms and sunbathing
facilities. Designed 1936 by a committee of honorary architects.
Painted and rendered brick with hipped green pantile roofs. The
buildings surround the pools on three sides, there is a large 50
yard Main Pool, plus a Learner Pool and a Paddling Pool. The
Main, west, range has a central 2-storey gateway and grandstand,
the west front has 3 central round headed entrances with
fanlights, flanked by 6-light metal casements. Above a tall
square clock tower surmounted by a pyramidal copper roof. Set
back to either side are single storey wings with continuous metal
framed window strips, topped by square piers with iron fencing
between. Either end has a square 2-storey pavilion, with a 3-
light metal casement window to each floor on both outer facades.
Side fronts have single storey wings with continuous metal framed
window strips, topped by square piers with iron fencing between.
Beyond are further 2-storey pavilions, with single 3-light metal
casements. The inner facades are linked by a continuous open
loggia around 3 sides of the pools. The central grandstand has
a snack bar on the ground floor, with 2 long staircases reaching
the upper floor which also has an open loggia supported on square
columns. The main pool has diving boards and various short and
tall octagonal lights. This building was built by Peterborough
City Council, and opened by the Mayor (Coun. A H Mellows) on
Friday May 25th 1936.

Listing NGR: TL1946698370

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26419838

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Recommended Books

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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)