Maryhill Public Baths And Wash House, 69 Burnhouse Street, Glasgow

Glasgow Office of Public Works, A B McDonald, City Surveyor 1896-1898. Conversion to leisure centre, 2006, Glasgow City Council Architects Department, Eimear Kelt, design team leader. 1- and 2- storey originally roughly square plan Baroque former baths and washhouses. Polished red ashlar sandstone. Side elevations now rendered. Steeply sloping corner site with main elevations to W and S. Cill course, eaves course, deep parapet with curvilinear details to S. Pilasters between each bay. Distinctive finialled gables with keyed oculi at eaves.

BURNHOUSE STREET ELEVATION: single storey, 10-bay with gables over central bays and bay to right. Roll moulded and keystoned openings. Central segmental arched window with gable above with Glasgow coat of arms, flanked by square headed dooways with two-leaf timber doors and fanlights and with inscriptions above,WASHHOUSE to left and PUBLIC BATHS to right. Wider segmental arched doorway to far left. Large round-arched window with Gibbs surround at far right (matching window on adjoining elevation) to former committee room (later manager's office).

GAIRBRAID STREET ELEVATION: 2-storey 10-bay with blind openings to ground floor. Large round-arched window in bay to left; Ionic colonettes dividing windows at first floor.

Small-pane timber windows. Slate roof with glazed roof lights over pool area to S.

INTERIOR: (seen 2013). Pool now floored over and committee room incorporated into main space. Tiled walls above original floor level.