Beverley Road Swimming Centre

The Beverley Road Swimming Centre, built between 1903 and 1905, was designed by Joseph H Hirst, the City Architect. It is a building of group value, demonstrating a high level of architectural and artistic merit.

The building is constructed of red brick with ashlar dressings, copper roofing, and slate roofs, featuring two coped ridge stacks. It incorporates a chamfered ashlar plinth, sill bands, and a moulded cornice. The main front is dominated by a central square tower in three stages, surmounted by an octagonal cupola with angle scroll brackets and a copper dome with an iron weather vane. A tall canted bay window with an ashlar surround and arched hood is positioned on the first floor, above which is a small circular window beneath a deep eaves cornice. Steps lead to the main doorway, featuring Ionic columns supporting an open pediment and panelled double doors. To the right is a gabled block with ashlar flanking buttresses, a gable topped with a pediment, and seven small windows with short Ionic pilasters, above which is a Venetian window. Further bays are recessed and topped with segmental pediments, leading to round-arched ashlar doorways with panelled doors and overlights. A two-storey block with five windows features central and flanking bay windows, with narrow windows beyond. Two pedimented dormers with scroll brackets top this section. The building's left corner features a two-storey bay topped with an octagonal cupola and copper dome. The left return, facing Epworth Street, has two gables with segmental pediments and three doorways, all with prominent ashlar surrounds and segmental hoods on brackets.

Inside, the entrance hall and foyer are notably opulent, featuring a bronze portrait plaque of John Shaw, Chairman of the Baths Committee, created by E. Caldwell Spruce in 1905. Extremely fine quality Art Nouveau tiling, by the Campbell Tile Company, extends to the corridors and baths. Individual bath cubicles retain their original tiling and baths. Two swimming baths remain, complete with their original roofs, balconies and tiling.