Former Victoria Baths

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SD3317NE PROMENADE 664-1/9/155 (East side) 10/08/76 Former Victoria Baths

GV II

Includes: Former Victoria Baths NEVILL STREET. Public baths, now sports club, night club and public house. Opened 1839; remodelled c1870; altered. Sandstone ashlar, roofs of slate, corrugated sheet and glass. STYLE: French Classical. PLAN: Large irregular rectangular plan, with entrance range on west side. EXTERIOR: 2-storey, 3-window entrance block flanked by single-storey, 6-bay side wings. The entrance block (remodelled c1870), with banded corner pilasters, cornice, parapet and 2-stage pavilion roof, has 2 round-headed doorways with paired Roman Doric columns and double pedimented entablature. One round-headed window between them. At first floor (reversing this arrangement) a central window framed by paired columns and a segmental pediment flanked by plain windows with paired pilasters over the outer ground-floor columns. The pavilion roof is raised over the centre, with a bull's-eye window to the front, and both this and the lower side roofs now lack their former ornamental iron cresting. The side wings have round-headed openings divided by paired pilasters. Right-hand return (to Nevill Street) of 3 bays in similar style, has similar Classical entrance in centre. INTERIOR: altered and remodelled, including C20 swimming pool.

Listing NGR: SD3357517583