Glenogle Baths, Glenogle Road, Edinburgh

Robert Morham, 1898. Rectangular-plan, castellated with Baronial details, swimming baths with 3 battered corner towers linked to smaller ancillary wing, built into sharply sloping site. Predominantly red bull-faced sandstone (Glenogle Road); droved cream ashlar sandstone to S (Saxe-Coburg Place) elevation. 3 corner towers; base course; dividing band courses; coped parapets.

N (GLENOGLE ROAD) ELEVATION: ancillary wing adjoining main building to outer left. Main building: 3-storey, 9-bay flanked by 4-stage towers. Towers; battered; round-arched roll-moulded doorways flanked by slit windows; hoodmould to doorway and windows; decorative 2-leaf iron gates single round-arched hoodmoulded window at 1st stage; 3 round-arched windows at 2nd stage; 2 decorative gun-loop openings at 3rd stage; machiolated cornice with stone parapet above; pyramidal roof.

S (SAXE-COBURG PLACE) ELEVATION: grey bull-faced sandstone; blocked openings at ground; 8 round-arched openings at 1st floor; parapet above. 3-stage bull-faced red sandstone tower to outer left. Cream sandstone ashlar arcaded curtain wall adjoining to right; steps down to pedimented round-arched gateway.

W ELEVATION: near-symmetrical; towers flanking advanced canted bay with round-arched windows; towers detailed as above.

E ELEVATION: ancillary pump and boiler wing; brick stack (see below); irregularly disposed openings. STACK: located to E of Glenogle Road entrance; circular-section red brick stack with octagonal base; ribbed crown. Predominantly 8-pane hopper windows with 4-pane fixed windows below. Shallow-pitched grey-green slate roof with glazed ridge panels to pool.

INTERIOR: (seen 1993). Blue and white ceramic tiles or bricks to pool; brass handrail; ceramic spittoons; cast-iron columns and decorative capitals; gallery and clearstory; iron balusters with timber handrail to stairs; 2 "Norton's Patent" turnstiles; yellow and green/brown ceramic tiled dado to hall and stairs; open timber roof to gym.