Public Baths And Washhouse, 75-89 Whitevale Street, Glasgow

Glasgow Office of Public Works, A B McDonald, City Surveyor, with William Sharp, assistant. Opened 17 May 1902. Baroque style, former swimming baths and washhouse, with 3-storey, 5-bay centre block 2-storey, 3-bay flanking wings. Main elevation to Whitevale Street symmetrical; central bays with two canopied and consoled doors, inscription 'Whitevale Baths' over first floor central window and gable at apex with carved arms of Glasgow. Red brick with polished red sandstone ashlar dressings and details and polished terrazzo below cill course of ground floor.

Base course, ground floor cill course, string course, first floor cill course, eaves course with similar arrangement to third floor. Parapet with curvilinear details. Plain pilasters between bays. Ionic colonnaded ground floor; wide segmental arched keystoned windows to first floor.

Original small pane metal glazing where visible. Exterior windows largely boarded up. Replacement roofing materials. Block with chimney to East John Street demolished, (see Notes).

INTERIOR: (See Notes). Top-lit men's pool with white tiled walls with coloured horizontal bands. Decorative metal roof trusses.