Oldbury Wells School (West)

OLDBURY WELLS SCHOOL (WEST)

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1254447
Date first listed:
30-Mar-1993
List Entry Name:
Oldbury Wells School (West)
Statutory Address:
OLDBURY WELLS SCHOOL (WEST)
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1254447
Date first listed:
30-Mar-1993
List Entry Name:
Oldbury Wells School (West)
Statutory Address 1:
OLDBURY WELLS SCHOOL (WEST)

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:
OLDBURY WELLS SCHOOL (WEST)

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

District:
Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Bridgnorth
National Grid Reference:
SO 71012 92547

Details

The following buildings shall be added to the list:-

BRIDGNORTH BRIDGNORTH OLDBURY WELLS SO 79 SW

823/1/10015 Oldbury Wells School (West)

II

Secondary school, formerly secondary modern school for boys. 1958. Lyons, Israel and Ellis. Reinforced. concrete frame with infill in brick, solid panels and glazing. Flat roof. Two storeys. Main rectangular block of eleven bays with smaller attached single storeyed kitchen projecting to the east, of brick. Main block with expressed board-marked concrete frame, standing proud of the facades. Bays six and seven from south form the entrance, which is deeply recessed behind the columns with a staircase projection, also well behind the columns, to its right. Floor to ceiling glazing to entrance hall. To left of entrance the concrete boiler house chimney projects through the roof as an architectural feature, and above the entrance the water tower also projects as an architectural feature. Hall to left is of double-height, with walls partly solid and partly of vertical strip windows. Classrooms fully glazed with thick timber window mullions and band at dado level. Lyons, Israel, Ellis and Gray, ed A. Forsyth and D. Gray.

Listing NGR: SO7115892617

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Legacy System number:
255102
Legacy System:
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Forsyth, A, Gray, D, Lyons, Israel, Ellis and Gray, ()

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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© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2026. OS AC0000815036. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100024900.© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2026. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006.

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