Dalry Public Baths, 29 Caledonian Crescent, Edinburgh

Robert Morham, 1893; refurbished 1992. 7-bay symmetrical Italianate villa-style public baths with 8th bay machinery entrance to outer right. 2 storey 3-bay main block with Tuscan portico and flanking single storey 2-bay wings; pool and changing area behind. Coursed pink sandstone; some ashlar dressings. Windows with moulded cills.

N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: base-course. Doric distyle portico at centre with DALRY PUBLIC BATHS carved in frieze; 2-leaf door with multi-pane semi-circular fanlight above deeply set in moulded surround. Round-headed ground floor windows flanking centre and to pavilion bays with chamfered arrises; moulded impost course (window to immediate left of entrance converted to doorway for ramped access). Wings with cornice and parapet with dies. Central block with band course dividing floors; 3 round-headed bipartite windows to 1st floor with moulded ashlar arches and transoms; moulded band course at springing level returning on side elevations to first oculus. Dentilled cornice at eaves.

Outer right bay slightly recessed and lower, comprising full width semi-circular arch enclosing 2-leaf garage door; paired round-headed windows above with moulded ashlar dressings, cill course and cornice continuing from main elevation; no parapet.

E AND W ELEVATIONS OF CENTRAL BLOCK: cornice continues as above at 1st floor with oculi flanking ridge of wings.

Timber casement multi-pane windows and round-arched top-hoppers throughout. Piend and platform roof; corniced ashlar wallhead stacks with octagonal cans to 2-storey block. Grey slates. Cast-iron downpipes and moulded eaves gutters.

BOUNDARY WALL AND RAILINGS: low wall at front with saddleback coping and railings, raised for ramped access to left of main entrance.

INTERIOR: entrance hall and stair arcaded and tiled. Baths to rear galleried with some arcading, altered 1992 to include changing facilities; top lit by open timber A-frame roof, supported, along with galleries, by cast-iron columns. Reception area enlarged 1992.