Victoria Public Baths, Junction Place, Leith, Edinburgh

George Simpson, 1896-9. 2-storey principal pool block with single storey entrance block to right, Free Renaissance details. Red sandstone front elevation, squared and snecked rubble with polished dressings, red and mottled brick to rear and sides. Base course; chamfered reveals; sloping cills; corniced windows and tall parapet to pool block.

SE (FRONT) ELEVATION: tripartite pool block to left with plain bands of quadripartite windows at ground floor to each pair. Centre bay slightly advanced, bracketed and pedimented at cornice level, tall round-arched window at 1st floor breaking parapet in pedimented gable, flanked by fluted pilasters. Quadripartite windows to outer bays. Original foliate cast-iron lamp bracket fixed to left. 4-bay single storey entrance block to right with recessed porch of paired arches in bay to left of centre, semi-circular open scrolled pediment above breaking eaves with large shield and motto of Leith. Bipartite windows to right of centre and outer left. Window to outer right. Windows all boarded-up. Green slate roof with crested red ridge tiles to entrance block, brick stack; pool block with grey slate lean-to roofs on either side and raised ridge with narrow strip window, ridge glazing of corrugated acrylic sheeting. Moulded eaves gutter.

INTERIOR: (1992) vestibule with oval lantern and commemorative panel naming architect; some original cornices. Largely original pool fittings with curved Baroque wrought- and cast-iron balcony rails, Art Nouveau wrought-iron tendrils, alternating between cast-iron supports and foliate bosses; balcony cantilevered over cast-iron columns between stalls on 3 sides, timber boarded partitions and later half doors. Light steel truss roof with arcaded catwalks. Pool re-tiled and re-faced.