Stonehaven Open Air Swimming Pool

The Stonehaven Open Air Swimming Pool, designed by R Gall of Gregory and Gall in 1934, was constructed by William Tawse Ltd of Aberdeen. The pool features a rectangular plan, holding 320,000 gallons of heated seawater, measuring 55 yards by 20 yards. It includes a long, single-storey entrance range in the Art Deco style, which has pantiled roofing, turnstiles, a café, and changing rooms on either side. The enclosure walls are stepped and buttressed, made of painted poured concrete.

The northwest elevation, which serves as the entrance, is symmetrical. It has a central piended block with semicircular steps leading up to a prominent doorpiece, which features broad pilasters, a cornice, and a keystone, flanked by flagpoles. To the right are three windows, while to the left is a door with flanking windows. The outer bays are set back and have paired horizontal windows near the eaves, accompanied by gabled bays and two similar later bays to the left. All openings are fitted with brightly coloured timber shutters.

The southeast elevation, facing the pool, consists of a 12-bay centre with various door and window openings, behind a colonnaded viewers gallery that has a pedimented centre and a flagpole. The changing room bays on either side feature paired small horizontal windows close to the eaves and additional doors.

The enclosure walls are flat-coped, stepped, and buttressed, with a decorative wrought-iron pedestrian gate to the southwest, a timber pedestrian door to the southeast, and a vehicular gate to the northeast. The pool elevation includes a pedimented bandstand at the centre southeast, a piended sea pump room at the south re-entrant angle, and a piended and gabled main plant room at the east angle.

The building features multi-pane glazing patterns in top-hopper opening metal windows and a roof covered with red pantiles, which includes original vertically-astragalled rooflights.

Inside, as observed in 2004, the entrance area has decorative cast-iron turnstiles made by 'Bailey, Albion Works, Manchester', flanking a canted ticket office window. The changing rooms retain traditional timber cubicles with timber seats.