Stonehaven Open Air Swimming Pool

R Gall of Gregory and Gall, 1934; main contractor William Tawse Ltd, Aberdeen. Water heating, circulation, filtering and disinfecting systems installed 1935; gents changing room extended 1936. Rectangular-plan, 320,000 gallon, open air heated seawater pool (55 yards x 20 yards) with long, single storey, pantiled, Art Deco, entrance range comprising turnstiles, café and flanking changing rooms; stepped buttressed enclosure walls. Painted poured concrete.

NW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: symmetrical. Piended block at centre with semicircular steps rising to advanced, broad-pilastered, corniced and keystoned doorpiece with flanking flagpoles and 2-leaf panelled timber door, 3 windows to right and door with flanking windows to left. Set-back outer bays with paired horizontal windows close to eaves flanked by gabled bays and 2 similar later bays beyond to left. All openings with brightly coloured timber shutters.

SE (POOL) ELEVATION: 12-bay centre with variety of door and window openings behind outshot colonnaded viewers gallery with pedimented centre and flagpole. Flanking changing room bays with paired small horizontal windows close to eaves and further doors.

ENCLOSURE WALLS: flat-coped stepped and buttressed enclosure walls with decorative wrought-iron pedestrian gate to SW, timber pedestrian door to SE and vehicular gate to NE. Pool elevation incorporating pedimented bandstand to centre SE, piended sea pump room in re-entrant angle at S, piended and gabled main plant room to E angle.

Multi-pane glazing patterns in top-hopper opening metal windows. Red pantiles with original vertically-astragalled rooflights.

INTERIOR: (seen 2004). Entrance with decorative cast-iron turnstiles by 'Bailey, Albion Works, Manchester' flanking canted ticket office window. Changing rooms retain traditional timber cubicles with timber seats.