SMITHDON SCHOOL INCLUDING MAIN BLOCK WATER TOWER WORKSHOPS AND KITCHENS
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1077909
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1993
- Statutory Address:
- SMITHDON SCHOOL INCLUDING MAIN BLOCK WATER TOWER WORKSHOPS AND KITCHENS, KINGS LYNN ROAD
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- SMITHDON SCHOOL INCLUDING MAIN BLOCK WATER TOWER WORKSHOPS AND KITCHENS, KINGS LYNN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hunstanton
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 67867 40573
Details
HUNSTANTON KINGS LYNN ROAD
TF 64 SE
213/1/10001 Smithdon School
inc. main block,
water tower,
workshops and
kitchens.
II*
Secondary school. 1950-54. Alison and Peter Smithson.
Painted steel frame with buff sandlime brick infill. Flat
roof. Windows originally of steel, without subframes, but now
many of these have been changed to timber. 2 storeys, with
single storeyed workshops and kitchens to north. Compact,
almost symmetrical rectangular plan around two courtyards,
with central double-height hall spanning two main ranges.
Classrooms fully glazed, with obscured panels below cill
height. Ground floor of lower proportions then upper floor.
Steel framed water tower with steel tanks, between main block
and attached kitchen, and brick chimney adjacent. An
important building with innovative steelwork designed on the
plastic theory.
R. Banham, New Brutalism;
T. Dannatt, Modern Architecture in Britain.
Listing NGR: TF6786740573
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 221299
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing
