Main Block at Woodlands School Including Administration and Main Entrance, Main and Small Hall, Gym and Library
MAIN BLOCK AT WOODLANDS SCHOOL INCLUDING ADMINISTRATION AND MAIN ENTRANCE, MAIN AND SMALL HALL, GYM AND LIBRARY, BROAD LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1076585
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Main Block at Woodlands School Including Administration and Main Entrance, Main and Small Hall, Gym and Library
- Statutory Address:
- MAIN BLOCK AT WOODLANDS SCHOOL INCLUDING ADMINISTRATION AND MAIN ENTRANCE, MAIN AND SMALL HALL, GYM AND LIBRARY, BROAD LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1076585
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Main Block at Woodlands School Including Administration and Main Entrance, Main and Small Hall, Gym and Library
- Statutory Address 1:
- MAIN BLOCK AT WOODLANDS SCHOOL INCLUDING ADMINISTRATION AND MAIN ENTRANCE, MAIN AND SMALL HALL, GYM AND LIBRARY, BROAD 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:
- MAIN BLOCK AT WOODLANDS SCHOOL INCLUDING ADMINISTRATION AND MAIN ENTRANCE, MAIN AND SMALL HALL, GYM AND LIBRARY, BROAD 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 27816 79388
Details
COVENTRY BROAD LANE WEST MIDLANDS COVENTRY C.B. Main Block at Woodlands School SP 27NE inc. Admin and 833/21/10002 Main Entrance, Main and Small Hall, Gym and Library
GV II
School building. 1952-57. Designed by the City Architects Department with the Ministry of Education Development Group. Built using Hills 3'4" system, comprising a steel frame with precast concrete panels. Flat roof; prominent roof slab. Irregular block of one and two storeys. Much glazing, in horizontal bands. Painted metal framed windows; plate glass. To wall of Main Hall coloured concrete slabs form simple pattern.
An integral part of Woodlands School complex, with Workshop and science block, Arts and Crafts block, Gymnasium block, block of two further gymnasia, three further Teaching blocks and five House blocks and cycle store to the east (qv).
Woodlands School was an experimental design project, and an early purpose-built comprehensive school.
A. Saint, Towards a Social Architecture. N. Pevsner and A. Wedgwood, BoE: Warwickshire
Listing NGR: SP2781679388
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 218631
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966)
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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