Swimming Pool, Former Balshagray Public School, 27 Broomhill Avenue

Donald Bruce and Edward A B Hay, 1904. Imposing, 3-storey, 12-bay, rectangular-plan, former Board School with symmetrical principal elevation in expressive Roman-Renaissance style with pedimented outer bays. Squared and snecked red sandstone; polished ashlar margins. Base course; cill courses (excluding rear). Channelled corner pilasters; bracketed eaves. To W, long, rectangular-plan swimming pool block with 2-storey former janitor's house adjoined to right.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: PRINCIPAL (N) ELEVATION: channelled rustication to ground floor; deep moulded cornicing between each floor; blocking course. Pedimented outer-bays with wide double-height Corinthian pilasters and engaged columns to windows: square-cut Tuscan to ground, round Ionic to 1st floor and round Tuscan to 2nd floor. Above, moulded round-arched windows with keystones. Slightly recessed central 6-bay section with inscription 'BALSHAGRAY PUBLIC SCHOOL' with '1904' date panels to left and right; further inscription between 1st and 2nd floor 'GOVAN PARISH SCHOOL BOARD'.

Raised cills to rear elevation; tall square-plan chimney rising from ground with corniced string courses, breaking eaves at centre right. Advanced central sections to E and W elevations with regularly arranged bi-partite fenestration separated by moulded panels between floors. 'BOYS' entrance to SW angle and 'INFANTS' entrance to rear far left, both with segmental-arch moulding. Additional deep single storey projection to E elevation with blocking course and ball finials. Later, single storey addition to SE angle cutting through former 'GIRLS' entrance.

Predominantly 6-pane timber sash and case windows to side and rear elevations. Later replacements to principal elevation. Piended grey slate roofs; crested terracotta ridges. Cast iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: double-height central hall, galleried at 1st and 2nd floors. Decorative hammerbeam type roof with baluster detail and glazed rooflights. Segmental-arched architraves to doorways. Stairwells to E and W with scrolled iron railings, timber handrails. Tiled dado throughout with green border.

SWIMMING POOL AND JANITOR'S HOUSE: Pool with 6-bay entrance elevation to Broomhill Avenue with shaped apex; moulded eaves course and continuous glazed timber raised rooflight. 2-bay, 2-storey former Janitor's House to right. Pitched grey slate roof. POOL INTERIOR: rectangular pool with white tiles; white glazed brick walls to gallery height; changing cubicles to S wall. Stone stairs at either end leading to timber-floored deck and viewing gallery. Decorative scrolled wrought iron railings. Cast iron roof supports with pierced quatrefoil detail.

GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: forming boundary to S, E and W. Predominantly low, sandstone wall with ashlar coping and scrolled iron railings (repeating pattern inside school). Polished ashlar square-section gatepiers with ball finials (one finial missing at Broomhill Drive).