The Fitness Connection Health Club

The Fitness Connection Health Club, formerly known as The Palladium Cinema, is a building dating from 1913, located on Seaforth Road. It has been altered from its original use as a cinema and is designed in the Edwardian Baroque style. The structure is made of white faience and common brick, with a pitched slate roof behind the entrance block.

The building has a rectangular plan that is positioned at right angles to the street, with the entrance block parallel to the road. It stands two storeys high and features three symmetrical bays. The central bay has a narrow pediment and is flanked by channelled pilasters. The exterior includes a moulded plinth, a string-course over the ground floor adorned with egg-and-dart enrichment, and a dentilled cornice with a plain parapet above, which is interrupted by the pediment.

The entrance features a wide recessed area with altered doors, now covered by a recent fascia board. Above the entrance is a large keyed oculus with a festoon, and the pediment contains a wreath with raised lettering that reads "1913." The outer bays have triple windows on both floors, each with individual keyed architraves and continuous sills, decorated with double festoons. The first-floor windows have 12-pane sash designs, while the ground-floor windows are now obscured by lettered boards. The return sides of the building, made of common brick, also feature similar coupled and triple windows.

On the south side of the main range, there are two large pedimented doorways, one with altered doors and the other blocked, along with three large enriched oculi above. The north side has a plain doorway and plain oculi.

Inside, the foyer includes two staircases made of white marble. The auditorium has been altered at the ground floor level, with a suspended ceiling added, but original moulded plaster panels and a decorated segmental-vaulted roof remain above, although slightly damaged.