Public Baths, Infirmary Street, Edinburgh

The Public Baths on Infirmary Street in Edinburgh were designed by Robert Morham and built between 1885 and 1887. They are in the Italianate style and constructed from rock-faced ashlar. The building has a two-storey elevation facing Infirmary Street, which features three ranges. The inner range, which serves as the entrance, is banded and arcaded, with three bays on the ground floor and five lights on the first floor. It has a broad-eaved piended roof with a square lantern above and small-paned glazing.

To the left of the main block is a rock-faced western range that includes a basement with tiny lights. This range is divided above into six bays by giant pilasters, with pilastered two-light openings in the upper bays and a rectangular glazed section at the new second floor level. The original plain low range to the east has been altered with larger glazed openings on the ground floor and a two-storey metal-clad and glazed box section above. A tall brick stack is set back from the street and features polychromy. There is also a further deep range to the north, which previously contained the baths, and it has a piend roof with rooflights and ventilators set in the flanks below the ridge, all covered with slate roofs.

Inside, as seen in 2013, the rectangular swimming pool layout has been retained in the 2009 conversion, along with the original gallery and an open-timbered roof supported by tiers of cast-iron columns.