Limbrick Wood School (Infants Block)
LIMBRICK WOOD SCHOOL (INFANTS BLOCK), BROAD LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1076550
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Limbrick Wood School (Infants Block)
- Statutory Address:
- LIMBRICK WOOD SCHOOL (INFANTS BLOCK), BROAD LANE
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/10719/06
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1076550
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Limbrick Wood School (Infants Block)
- Statutory Address 1:
- LIMBRICK WOOD SCHOOL (INFANTS BLOCK), BROAD LANE
- Statutory Address 2:
- LIMBRICK WOOD SCHOOL (INFANTS BLOCK), JOB'S LANE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- LIMBRICK WOOD SCHOOL (INFANTS BLOCK), BROAD LANE
- Statutory Address:
- LIMBRICK WOOD SCHOOL (INFANTS BLOCK), JOB'S LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Coventry (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 28748 79112
Details
COVENTRY BROAD LANE/JOB'S LANE WEST MIDLANDS COVENTRY C.B. Limbrick Wood School (Infants SP 27NE block) 833/21/10014
GV II
Primary school (infants block). 1951-52. Ministry of Education and Coventry City Architects Department. Aluminium frame and corrugated aluminium panel construction, based on the Bristol Aeroplane Company's school building system but adapted to a grid plan. Low pitched roofs. Irregular picturesque grouping with central double height assembly hall with dining area and 3 pairs of lower classrooms opening from it in three projecting limbs. School offices in smaller projecting limb. Classrooms grouped so as to form open court- yards around the perimeter. Large strip windows with aluminium frames and painted aluminium panels below. A prototype school which developed the BAC's system to give it greater flexibility in its plan. (See also juniors block).
A. Saint, Towards a Social Architecture.
Listing NGR: SP2874879112
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 218643
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Saint, A, Towards a Social Architecture: The Role of School-Building in Post-War England, (1987)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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