Former Cheltenham College Swimming Baths
FORMER CHELTENHAM COLLEGE SWIMMING BATHS, COLLEGE BATHS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386874
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jan-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Former Cheltenham College Swimming Baths
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER CHELTENHAM COLLEGE SWIMMING BATHS, COLLEGE BATHS ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386874
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jan-1990
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Former Cheltenham College Swimming Baths
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER CHELTENHAM COLLEGE SWIMMING BATHS, COLLEGE BATHS 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:
- FORMER CHELTENHAM COLLEGE SWIMMING BATHS, COLLEGE BATHS ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Cheltenham (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 95406 21525
Details
CHELTENHAM
SO9521NW COLLEGE BATHS ROAD 630-1/19/286 (North side) 11/01/90 Former Cheltenham College Swimming Baths (Formerly Listed as: COLLEGE BATHS ROAD Former Boys' College Swimming Baths)
GV II
Swimming baths. 1871 by WH Knight. Flemish bond yellow brick with red brick bands and limestone ashlar dressings; low-pitched gabled slate roof with slate roofs to side-wall lean-tos and lead roof to front porch and flanking lean-tos; yellow brick stack to boiler-house. High Victorian style. Rectangular plan with hall flanked by work-shop and boiler-room to front (south-east) and toilets-pavilion to north-east. EXTERIOR: front elevation: one-storey, 10-window range, with slightly-projecting, gabled porch and hipped outer bays. Porch has stone lintels over half-glazed double doors and flanking 2-pane sashes to porch and stone lintels set in dentilled eaves over paired 2-pane sashes; gable end of pool building, set to rear, has red brick impost course and semicircular arch over large lunette window of abstracted geometrical design. Similar larger window to north-west gable. Side walls have stone lintels set in dentilled brick eaves over 14 rectangular windows to lean-tos and stone lintels over 8 groups of 3 square windows beneath eaves of main pool building; projecting north-east toilets-pavilion has hipped roof surmounted by louvred ventilation cupola. INTERIOR: noted in 1990 List description as including: main pool in yellow brick with black tile courses, red brick bands and red brick piers and segmental arches with keystones to 6-bay arcades along side walls with front-divide cubicles with dog-tooth top rail and chamfered architraves and muntins to plank partitions; all alcoves and cubicles have tiled dados with strip of pale blue floral tiles. A-frame roof with wrought-iron bracing. A very good example of its type, the architectural treatment skilfully related to the functional requirements of the building. (List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Department of the Environment: Borough of Cheltenham: 1983-).
Listing NGR: SO9542621526
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 474286
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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