Workshop and Science Block to North of Main Block at Woodlands School

WORKSHOP AND SCIENCE BLOCK TO NORTH OF MAIN BLOCK AT WOODLANDS SCHOOL, BROAD LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1226681
Date first listed:
30-Mar-1993
List Entry Name:
Workshop and Science Block to North of Main Block at Woodlands School
Statutory Address:
WORKSHOP AND SCIENCE BLOCK TO NORTH OF MAIN BLOCK AT WOODLANDS SCHOOL, BROAD LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1226681
Date first listed:
30-Mar-1993
List Entry Name:
Workshop and Science Block to North of Main Block at Woodlands School
Statutory Address 1:
WORKSHOP AND SCIENCE BLOCK TO NORTH OF MAIN BLOCK AT WOODLANDS SCHOOL, 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
WORKSHOP AND SCIENCE BLOCK TO NORTH OF MAIN BLOCK AT WOODLANDS SCHOOL, 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 27825 79440

Details

COVENTRY BROAD LANE. WEST MIDLANDS COVENTRY C.B. Workshop and Science Block to SP 27NE N. of Main Block at Woodlands 833/21/10005 School.

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 five storeys with single storey blocks to east and west. Much glazing, in horizontal bands. Painted metal framed windows; plate glass. Three projecting balconies to south face.

An integral part of Woodlands School complex, with Main 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: SP2782579440

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
218634
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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