Arlington Baths Club

The area quickly attracted well-off middle-class residents who were the primary members of the Arlington Baths Club.

As originally designed by Burnet, the building was single story and conceived as a kind of theme and variation on the idea of subdivision by twos and threes.

Thus, the main façade onto Arlington Street was modulated by means of two pavilions, located at either end of the building with the centre marked by arched windows arranged in groups of threes.

One entered the building at the higher level through the arched entrance in the middle of the façade, coming straight out onto the transverse axis of the pool.

From this point, the emphasis of the building swung through ninety degrees onto the main axis of the pool hall along which the other accommodation was laid out.

[7] This comprises a large square room, heated to high temperatures by a plenum, with tiled walls and floor, and a dome-shaped ceiling studded with small star-shaped windows glazed with colored glass.

[2] He extended the front wall of the original building directly upwards to create a new larger billiard hall and dressing room[10] now used as a gym.

Internal alterations carried out during the late 1960s and 1970s in order to comply with fire safety legislation have damaged the interior of the building.