Coogee Baths
| Wylie's Baths | |
|---|---|
| 33°55′32″S 151°15′34″E / 33.92566°S 151.25941°ECoordinates: 33°55′32″S 151°15′34″E / 33.92566°S 151.25941°E | |
| Address | 4B Neptune Street, Coogee Beach, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Postcode | 2034 |
| Opened | 1907 |
| Operator | |
| Owner | Randwick City Council |
| Type | Tidal pool |
| Former names | Sunset Pool |
| Length | 50 metres (160 ft) |
| Width | 30 metres (98 ft) |
| Depth | 0.5 to 1.6 metres (1 ft 8 in to 5 ft 3 in) |
| Website | www.wylies.com.au |
| Builder | Henry Alexander Wylie |
| Size | |
| Olympic-size pool | |
| Designations | |
|---|---|
| Official name | Wylie's Baths |
| Type | Built |
| Criteria | a., b., c., d., e., f., g. |
| Designated | 14 November 2003 |
| Reference no. | 01677 |
Wylie's Baths is an heritage-listed tidal swimming pool located near Coogee Beach, in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The baths are noted for holding the first Australian Swimming Championships and for being one of the first swimming baths for mixed gender swimming in Australia.
Wylie's Baths was built in 1907 by Henry Wylie, who was the father of Mina Wylie who, along with Fanny Durack, were Australia's first female Olympic swimming representatives, and Australia's first woman gold and silver medallists respectively.
From 1959 to 1978, the baths were called Sunset Pool.
Owned by the City of Randwick, Wylie's Baths is run by a management committee established in 1978 comprising representatives from South Maroubra Dolphins Winter Swimming Club, Randwick & Coogee Amateur Swimming Club, the Coogee-Randwick RSL Diggers Swimming Club, and the Coogee Surf Life Saving Club.
A refurbishment of the Wylie's Baths during 1994, designed by architects Allen Jack+Cottier, won the 1995 RAIA NSW Greenway Award for Restoration.
The baths are classified by the National Trust of Australia and were listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 14 November 2003 with the following statement of significance:
Wylie's Baths is of State significance as one of NSW's oldest, most intact and best-known ocean swimming pools. It is also significant for the possibility that its location was special to Aboriginal women's business. Built in 1907, Wylie's Baths survives as a turn-of-the-century bathing complex, including an Olympic-size pool, elevated boardwalk, change rooms, kiosk and store, which evidences the development of sport and recreational facilities in Sydney. Wylie's Baths has been used for many competitive and recreational events, including amateur swimming clubs, fitness training, learn-to-swim classes as well as for general swimming, sunbathing and as a popular gathering place. Wylie's Baths has been held in great affection by generations of Sydneysiders.
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