Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9521NW COLLEGE BATHS ROAD 630-1/19/286 (North side) 11/01/90 Former Cheltenham College Swimming Baths (Formerly Listed as: COLLEGE BATHS ROAD Former Boys' College Swimming Baths)

GV II

Swimming baths. 1871 by WH Knight. Flemish bond yellow brick with red brick bands and limestone ashlar dressings; low-pitched gabled slate roof with slate roofs to side-wall lean-tos and lead roof to front porch and flanking lean-tos; yellow brick stack to boiler-house. High Victorian style. Rectangular plan with hall flanked by work-shop and boiler-room to front (south-east) and toilets-pavilion to north-east. EXTERIOR: front elevation: one-storey, 10-window range, with slightly-projecting, gabled porch and hipped outer bays. Porch has stone lintels over half-glazed double doors and flanking 2-pane sashes to porch and stone lintels set in dentilled eaves over paired 2-pane sashes; gable end of pool building, set to rear, has red brick impost course and semicircular arch over large lunette window of abstracted geometrical design. Similar larger window to north-west gable. Side walls have stone lintels set in dentilled brick eaves over 14 rectangular windows to lean-tos and stone lintels over 8 groups of 3 square windows beneath eaves of main pool building; projecting north-east toilets-pavilion has hipped roof surmounted by louvred ventilation cupola. INTERIOR: noted in 1990 List description as including: main pool in yellow brick with black tile courses, red brick bands and red brick piers and segmental arches with keystones to 6-bay arcades along side walls with front-divide cubicles with dog-tooth top rail and chamfered architraves and muntins to plank partitions; all alcoves and cubicles have tiled dados with strip of pale blue floral tiles. A-frame roof with wrought-iron bracing. A very good example of its type, the architectural treatment skilfully related to the functional requirements of the building. (List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Department of the Environment: Borough of Cheltenham: 1983-).



Listing NGR: SO9542621526

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