The Lido is a Grade II listed building in the Peterborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 July 1992. Swimming pool. 3 related planning applications.
The Lido
- WRENN ID
- guardian-hearth-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peterborough
- Constituency
- Peterborough MP: Andrew Pakes (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 July 1992
- Type
- Swimming pool
- Address
- The Lido, Bishop's Road, City of Peterborough, PE1 1YY
- OS grid reference
- TL 194 983
- Coordinates
- 52.57006, -0.23872
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Lido is an open-air swimming facility located on Bishop's Road in Peterborough, designed in 1936 by a committee of honorary architects. The building features painted and rendered brick with hipped green pantile roofs and surrounds three sides of the swimming pools, which include a large 50-yard Main Pool, a Learner Pool, and a Paddling Pool.
The main range on the west side has a central two-storey gateway and grandstand, with three round-headed entrances featuring fanlights, flanked by six-light metal casement windows. Above this area is a tall square clock tower topped with a pyramidal copper roof. To either side of the main structure are single-storey wings with continuous metal-framed window strips, which are capped with square piers and iron fencing. At each end, there are square two-storey pavilions, each with three-light metal casement windows on both outer facades.
The inner facades of the building are connected by a continuous open loggia that runs around three sides of the pools. The central grandstand includes a snack bar on the ground floor, with two long staircases leading to the upper floor, which also features an open loggia supported by square columns. The Main Pool is equipped with diving boards and various short and tall octagonal lights. The Lido was constructed by Peterborough City Council and officially opened by the Mayor, Councillor A H Mellows, on May 25th, 1936.
Local climate
The Lido sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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