Seymour Leisure Centre

Seymour Leisure Centre, Bryanston Place

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1264003
Date first listed:: 22-Mar-1989
List Entry Name:: Seymour Leisure Centre
Statutory Address:: Seymour Leisure Centre, Bryanston Place

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Date:: 2001-11-06
Reference:: IOE01/05554/20
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1264003
Date first listed:: 22-Mar-1989
List Entry Name:: Seymour Leisure Centre
Statutory Address 1:: Seymour Leisure Centre, Bryanston Place
Statutory Address 2:: Seymour Leisure Centre, Seymour Place

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Seymour Leisure Centre, Bryanston Place
Statutory Address:: Seymour Leisure Centre, Seymour Place

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: City of Westminster (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 27481 81557

Details

TQ 2781 NW, NE 42/118 & 43/118 .

Bryanston Place Seymour Leisure Centre (includes Seymour Leisure Centre, Seymour Place)

GV II Public baths and laundry, now leisure centre. 1935-37, by Kenneth Cross for St Marylebone Borough Council. Purple brick with red brick window architraves and Portland stone dressings; gabled Spanish tile roofs; brick ridge stacks. "Courtyard plan" with first-class swimming pool to centre. Renaissance "palazzo" style.

Two storey, fifteen-bay elevation to Bryanston Place. Revealed metal doors, in Art Deco style, set in three semi-circular arched stone architraves to centre; carved stone medallions to spandrels. Metal glazing bars in Art Deco style to all windows: semi-circular arched architraves to full-height ground floor windows, and square-headed rectangular first-floor windows, with three moulded stone architraves to centre. Modillioned stone cornice; bell cupola.

Similar eleven-bay elevation to Seymour Place; twelve-bay elevation to Shouldham Street has sashes set in square-headed architraves with sunk aprons; moulded stone door architrave to left and two similar but wider door architraves each surmounted by sash set in raised architrave with ramped sides and open stone pediment.

Interior: metal balustrades to staircases in entrance halls. Main (large) swimming pool is roofed over with reinforced concrete elliptical arches supporting windows of stepped section, directly derived from The Royal Horticultural Hall of 1927-8 but ultimately from European prototypes such as Freyssinet's Orly Airport Hangers, 1921-3.

The pool, built so as to convert into cinema, sports or meeting hall as desired, is surrounded by spectator galleries with metal balustrades and has proscenium feature to one end.

Listing NGR: TQ2748181557

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 428856
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.