The Village College
THE VILLAGE COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1127730
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Village College
- Statutory Address:
- THE VILLAGE COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1127730
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Village College
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE VILLAGE COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE ROAD
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:
- THE VILLAGE COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Linton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 55702 46917
Details
TL 5446 LINTON CAMBRIDGE ROAD (North Side)
15/79 The Village College
GV II
Village College. 1937. Architect S.E. Urwin (b.1892 d.1968), in collaboration with H. Morris Director of Education for Cambridgeshire. Modern movement style. Handmade 'Essex Primrose' brick by Collier & Co, concrete dressings, steel window frames. Roofs with steel or wooden frames covered with asphalt. Single storey asymmetrical arrangement, main east-west range with central corridor, banked range of classrooms at right angles to west end and assembly hall at right angles to east end and to the south side of the main east entrance. The library, common room, and lecture hall continue the main range to the east on the north side of the main entrance. Entrance elevation: stepped paved court leads to double doors with side lights in segmental jambed opening decorated with blue eggshell tiles, plain parapet above with tower block rising behind with vertical and horizontal moulded brick bands and tall single-light steel windows. Interior: details designed by Urwin remain in plain wooden panels to public rooms and fittings to school rooms, and some items of furniture. The village colleges were designed to integrate school and village requirements. Linton was the third college to be built in Cambridgeshire and the second by S.E. Urwin. Building began in 1935/6 on Bottisham and Linton and it is thought that the designs for these buildings influenced Gropius and Fry in their building of Impington College in 1938.
Morris, H, The Village College. 1925 Duchin, K, S E Urwin Cambs. County Architect 1934-39. C.C. The Architects Journal, Oct. 14, 1937 The Builder. Sept 2. 1938 Pevsner. Buildings of England, p425
Listing NGR: TL5570246917
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 51892
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Morris, H, The Village College, (1925)
Duchin, K, SE Urwin Cambridgeshire County Architect 1934-39, ()
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970), 425
Architects Journal in 14 October, (1937)
The Builder in 2 September, (1938)
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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