The Lido

The Lido is a band enclosure, now used as bathing pools, built in 1925 by the architects Adshead and Ramsey. The structure features dragged render on its walls and metal roofs. It has a depressed horseshoe shape that projects seaward from Marine Parade. Alongside the Parade, there is a glazed wall supported by fluted shafts, which holds up the top beam and is decorated with imbricated tenops. This wall is topped with rectangular pavilions that have heavily swept roofs. A conventional classical cornice runs along the front of the building.

On either side of the bandstand, which is flanked by plain curved walls, are the changing rooms to the east and a restaurant to the west. The bandstand itself has short flank walls adorned with baskets of fruit and flowers, as well as applied Greek theatrical masks, and is designed as an open temple with an oval plan. It features a low conical roof supported by slim paired columns resembling the Tower of the Winds type, and a flat ceiling with decorative plasterwork. The Lido is a clever and appealing building that complements the nearby Pier Pavilion, also designed by the same architects.