Woodside Junior School

WOODSIDE JUNIOR SCHOOL, MITCHELL WALK

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1200392
Date first listed:
30-Mar-1993
Statutory Address:
WOODSIDE JUNIOR SCHOOL, MITCHELL WALK
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1200392
Date first listed:
30-Mar-1993
Statutory Address 1:
WOODSIDE JUNIOR SCHOOL, MITCHELL WALK

Location

Statutory Address:
WOODSIDE JUNIOR SCHOOL, MITCHELL WALK

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Amersham
National Grid Reference:
SU9729198369

Details

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, CHILTERN, MITCHELL WALK

AMERSHAM

SU 99 NE,

166/3/10001, Woodside Junior School

II


Junior School. 1956-57. Mary and David Medd of Ministry of
Education. Buff brick and painted timber cladding. Flat roof,
except for hall which is taller, with mono-pitched roof.
Irregular picturesque plan with hall and lower music/dining
room at the core and classrooms in two groups of four,
extending to south-east from either end. Single storeyed.
Deep strip windows to classrooms with solid spandrels below;
floor to ceiling windows facing courtyard to hall and dining
areas. The first true 'rationalised traditional' school,
built as a prototype by the Ministry of Education.

A. Saint, Towards a Social Architecture.

Listing NGR: SU9729198369

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350331
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Sources

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Saint, A, Towards a Social Architecture: The Role of School-Building in Post-War England, (1987)

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