Parliament Hill Fields Lido
PARLIAMENT HILL FIELDS LIDO, GORDON HOUSE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1113025
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jan-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Parliament Hill Fields Lido
- Statutory Address:
- PARLIAMENT HILL FIELDS LIDO, GORDON HOUSE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1113025
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jan-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Parliament Hill Fields Lido
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARLIAMENT HILL FIELDS LIDO, GORDON HOUSE ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- PARLIAMENT HILL FIELDS LIDO, GORDON HOUSE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Camden (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 28261 85793
Details
CAMDEN
TQ2885NW GORDON HOUSE ROAD
798-1/30/1866 (North West side)
Parliament Hill Fields Lido
II
Open air swimming baths. 1937-8. By Harry Arnold Rowbotham.
For the London County Council Parks Department. Patterned
stock brick, flat roofs concealed behind parapets. Rectangular
plan, with entrance to south flanked by changing rooms,
filtration plant to east and offices to west, all in a
single-storey U-shaped building. This form continued as walls
shielding sun-bathing terraces to north, set either side of
single-storey cafe with curved moderne-style front. In the
centre is the pool, 60m by 27m, with fountains or aerators to
either side.
All buildings with small metal windows, except for the cafe
which has large glazed panels with horizontal metal glazing
bars continued across double doors at centre.
HISTORICAL NOTE: included as the most sophisticated of the
thirteen lidos constructed by the LCC between 1909 and 1939.
No other British city attempted so comprehensive a programme,
and Parliament Hill Fields is considered the best
representative example of the rectangular pools enclosed by
high walls found in urban locations.
(The Twentieth Century Society: Farewell My Lido: London:
-1990).
Listing NGR: TQ2826185793
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 477352
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Farewell My Lido, (1990)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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