KINGS MEADOW SWIMMING POOL

KINGS MEADOW SWIMMING POOL, KINGS MEADOW ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1391153
Date first listed:: 25-Aug-2004
List Entry Name:: KINGS MEADOW SWIMMING POOL
Statutory Address:: KINGS MEADOW SWIMMING POOL, KINGS MEADOW ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1391153
Date first listed:: 25-Aug-2004
List Entry Name:: KINGS MEADOW SWIMMING POOL
Statutory Address 1:: KINGS MEADOW SWIMMING POOL, KINGS MEADOW ROAD

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:: KINGS MEADOW SWIMMING POOL, KINGS MEADOW ROAD

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

District:: Reading (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SU 71972 73979

Details

934/0/10054 KING'S MEADOW ROAD 25-AUG-04 Caversham Lock King's Meadow Swimming Pool

II Women's Outdoor Swimming Pool. 1902, with minor late C20 alterations. Designed and built by John Bowen, Borough Engineer & Surveyor, at a cost of £4,890. Ironwork made by Allen & Kidgell at their Caversham Bridge Engineering Works. Red and white Brick with ashlar dressings and plain tile roofs. Canopy roofs replaced with C20 corrugated iron. INTERIOR has white tiled rectangular swimming pool 120 ft long and 45 ft wide. Pool surrounded by a covered loggia with a timber roof or canopy. This canopy supported on ornate cast-iron columns, with elaborate brackets above. Octagonal entrance building now masked by C20 temporary boarding. The shallow end retains a large number of original timber changing rooms sited under the surrounding canopy. EXTERIOR has octagonal entrance building projecting from the centre of the long south side. Octagon has tall tile roof with four small dormers, each with tile-hung sides and timber brackets supporting the gables. Main entrance has central doorway topped with a bold ashlar pediment containing a shield bearing the date '1902'. Either side two windows to the octagion and seven windows on either side, the chamfered ends have a single window each. All these windows are linked by a moulded ashlar cill band, and they are now boarded up. The left end has a single tall chimney stack. All the external walls are orange brick with a white brick band above. The three remaining sides are all blind. This pleasure bathing pool was built to allow Edwardian women to bath in privacy. It was originally fed from the Thames, though it was converted to the mains supply in the 1950s. It is an extremeley rare and very fine example of a complete Edwardian Lido.

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Legacy System number:: 491311
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.