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

The Swimming and Leisure Centre, located at 2 St Mary's Lane in Lochee, was designed by John Murray Robertson and completed in 1894, with an extension added in 1913. This building is in the Jacobean style and features a library and public swimming baths, characterized by curvilinear gables, pediments, and a cylindrical corner tower. It is constructed of two stories of coursed red ashlar with a rusticated grey rubble base and polished red sandstone dressings.

The library block on the west side includes a cylindrical corner entrance and tower topped with an ogee-capped roof. The entrance features a pedimented doorpiece that has been converted into a window, with a wrought-iron lamp bracket above. To the left, there is a modern door in a twin curvilinear-gabled section with strapworked grid and oculi. The left gable has a ball finial, while the right gable is topped with a stack. Some alterations have been made to the windows.

On the south elevation facing High Street, there are two curvilinear gables to the right of a stair turret. The left side has three ground floor cross windows and two first floor cross windows with a shield. To the right, there is a tall three-light mullioned and transomed window with relieving arches and a strapworked tympanum. The three bays to the right have a ground floor that is blind, featuring dated tie-plates. The elevation is also adorned with three curvilinear gabletted dormers, each with ball finials.

The southeast end elevation has a ground floor door and three small blind windows, along with a curvilinear gable that includes a strapworked grid, a six-light mullioned window, and an oculus. The roofs are slate with modern skylights, and some windows have plate glass while others feature a small-paned glazing pattern.

Inside, the library room is pilastered with a top-lit barrel-vaulted ceiling. The swimming pool hall has been refurbished in 1979, 1989, and 1994, while retaining wrought-iron roof trusses with cast-iron struts. A stair at the southeast end leads to a raised gallery with a cast-iron rail, returning to the north, east, and west walls. A marble memorial drinking fountain, dated 1894, has been reset by the poolside, with a dedication that reads, "Erected in Memory of the Late Thomas Hunter Cox of Maulesden and Strathmartine, The Donor of this Institution."