Swimming And Leisure Centre, 2 St Mary's Lane, Lochee

John Murray Robertson, dated 1894, extended 1913. Jacobean style library and public swimming baths with curvilinear gables and pediments and cylindrical corner tower. 2-storey coursed red ashlar with rusticated grey rubble base. Polished red sandstone dressings.

LIBRARY BLOCK (TO W): cylindrical corner entrance and tower with ogee-capped roof. Pedimented doorpiece (now a window) with wrought-iron lamp bracket over. Modern door to left in twin curvilinear-gabled obtuse-angled section with strapworked grid and oculi. Ball finial to left gable, right finial a stack. Some alterations to fenestration.

S (HIGH STREET) ELEVATION: 2 curvilinear gables to right of stair turret. 3 ground floor cross windows to left with 2 1st floor cross windows and shield. Bay to right tall 3-light mullioned and transomed window, relieving arches with strapworked tympanum. 3-bays fronting bays to right, ground floor blind with dated tie-plates. 3 curvilinear gabletted dormers with ball finials.

SE (END) ELEVATION: ground floor door and 3 small blind windows. Curvilinear gable with strapworked grid, 6-light mullioned window and oculus.

Slate roofs with modern skylights. Some windows plate glass; other small-paned glazing pattern.

INTERIOR: pilastered library room with top-lit barrel-vaulted ceiling. Swimming pool hall refurbished (1979/89 and 94) retaining wrought-iron roof trusses with cast-iron struts; stair to SE end to raised gallery with cast-iron rail, returning to N, E and W walls. Marble memorial drinking fountain dated 1894 reset by poolside; dediction reads "Erected in Memory of the Late Thomas Hunter Cox of Maulesden and Strathmartine, The Donor of this Institution".