Groundwork Trust Offices, And Attached Chimney

The building is a former public baths and wash house, later a public library and sports club, and now offices, dating from 1902. It was designed by the architect Maurice Adams. The structure is built of red brick with Portland stone banding and other decorative details, exhibiting a picturesque combination of architectural styles.

The left-hand section, originally the baths, has three Gothic-style gables with geometric stone inlay to the main frontage. To the right is a two-storey gabled bay with corner stone pinnacles over banded pilasters, supported by decorative corbels carved with mermaids. A moulded granite round-arched entrance with steps leads to double doors. Above, a Tudor-style mullioned and transomed three-light window sits beneath a modillion cornice, topped by a plaque in the gable. Most of the other main windows are of similar style. The central gabled bay has coupled three-light windows to the ground floor and three grouped windows to the first floor. A single-storey gabled bay to the left forms the gable end of a north-facing block which was originally the library. It features three grouped windows, with the centre window set in a Queen Anne-style canted bay and a tympanum above. The right section was originally the laundry and is of a similar style, with a tiled roof and a smaller doorway. A large semicircular window with red brick dressings and a stone key is located on the ground floor; three windows are above, with a plaque placed between floors. A gabled return is present on the right side. A tall brick chimney on the rear elevation has stone banding and a cornice.

The north return (Neate Street), which housed the public library, has a high-pitched red tile roof with raftered eaves. It is a single-storey, three-bay structure approached by steps leading to a Baroque-style stone portico with modified Ionic columns supporting a break-front cornice and a segmental pediment bearing a coat of arms. Stone figures of readers flank the pediment, resting on an extended cornice. A stone-faced, battlemented centre bay projects from the side walls. A stone gable with a rose window rises behind the battlements. The side sections feature three-light windows with cornices and brick panels beneath. A continuous string course runs at ground floor sill level and another beneath the brick panels.

The interior of the building has not been inspected.