Argyle Place Bathing Station
Date 17 March 2010
Event ID 914779
Category Management
Type Site Management
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/914779
Inter-war bathing station with changing rooms, toilets and other facilities set below road level and with extensive terraces down to the sea. A curious entrance pavilion protrudes above the roof deck. The architect, Thomas Beveridge, was also responsible for the Rothesay Indoor Baths, built in 1933.
The site may also have been previously utilised as a bathing station: the Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland, 1882-1885, by Francis H. Groome, notes " On the opposite side of the bay, in front of Skeoch Wood, are the ladies' and gentlemen's bathing places erected by the burgh. They have dressing rooms with attendants, and are screened from view by stone walls."
