What may have appealed to Dance about the Baths were the symmetrical planning about axes, enfilade arrangements, compartments on a semicircular plan, as well as apsidal ends, semicircular alcoves and square recesses, the circular caldarium supported by 12 piers, and twin peristyles. Some of these elements of the reconstructed plan found their way into Dance's competition design for a public gallery that won him the Gold Medal of the Parma Academy in 1763 and completed his six years in Italy.

The outline section of the ruined building does not show the details of the clerestory lighting or the dome that would have interested Dance.