Former Indoor Swimming Pool to Wanstead Infant Orphan Asylum

The building is a former indoor swimming pool, constructed around 1880 as part of Wanstead Infant Orphan Asylum. It is built of London stock brick with red brick dressings and slate roof coverings.

The pool is a single-storey, gabled building with a rectangular plan. Internally, the swimming pool area is open to the roof, and a range of rooms runs down the west side of the building, parallel to the pool.

The south elevation, facing the former entrance drive, has four segmental-headed timber-framed casement windows separated by a brick string course. The west elevation features a square-headed doorway, two casement windows, further doorways, two more casements, and a main entrance porch with five-panelled double doors. Windows throughout are metal-framed casements divided into ten smaller panes, with concrete lintels and sills. The north elevation has three brick buttresses and a single low window near the northwest corner, likely serving a basement. Metal-framed casements are also present on the east elevation, flanked by stepped brick buttresses and with steps leading down to a basement doorway close to the southeast corner. The basement, which was not inspected, likely originally contained storage and plant equipment, such as a boiler, for the swimming pool. The roof has a gable at the north end and a smaller gablet at the south end. There are two long lines of rooflights near the apex, and louvres at each end. A moulded brick cornice runs below the eaves, and a tall, corbelled chimney stack rises above the roof at the southwest corner.

The interior swimming pool was originally open to the roof. It is now covered by a temporary wooden floor structure and features a steel double-inverted trussed roof. The rooms along the west side are accessed through five-panelled doors and have parquet floors. Part of the interior, including the north end, has been subdivided to provide storage space.