Former Cheltenham College Swimming Baths

The former Cheltenham College Swimming Baths were built in 1871 by WH Knight. They are constructed of yellow brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with red brick banding and limestone ashlar dressings. The roof is low-pitched slate, with slate roofs to the side-wall lean-tos and a lead roof to the front porch and flanking lean-tos. A yellow brick stack serves the boiler-house. The design is in the High Victorian style.

The building has a rectangular plan with a hall flanked by a workshop and boiler-room to the front (south-east) and a toilets pavilion to the north-east. The front elevation is a one-storey, 10-window range, with a slightly projecting gabled porch and hipped outer bays. The porch has stone lintels over half-glazed double doors, alongside 2-pane sashes. The gable end of the pool building at the rear features a red brick impost course and a semicircular arch with a large lunette window displaying an abstracted geometrical design. A similar, larger window is found on the north-west gable. The side walls have stone lintels set in dentilled brick eaves, above 14 rectangular windows to the lean-tos and 8 groups of 3 square windows beneath the eaves of the main pool building. The projecting north-east toilets pavilion has a hipped roof topped with a louvred ventilation cupola.

The interior, as described in the 1990 listing, includes the main pool constructed of yellow brick with black tile courses and red brick bands. It features segmental arches with keystones to 6-bay arcades along the side walls, with front-divided cubicles. These cubicles have a dog-tooth top rail and chamfered architraves and muntins to plank partitions. The alcoves and cubicles have tiled dados with a strip of pale blue floral tiles. The roof is an A-frame structure with wrought-iron bracing. The building is a very good example of its type, with its architectural treatment skillfully related to the building's functional requirements.