BLOCK OF TWO GYMNASIA TO SOUTH OF MAIN BLOCK AT WOODLANDS SCHOOL

BLOCK OF TWO GYMNASIA TO SOUTH OF MAIN BLOCK AT WOODLANDS SCHOOL, BROAD LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1265775
Date first listed:: 29-Mar-1993
List Entry Name:: BLOCK OF TWO GYMNASIA TO SOUTH OF MAIN BLOCK AT WOODLANDS SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: BLOCK OF TWO GYMNASIA TO SOUTH OF MAIN BLOCK AT WOODLANDS SCHOOL, BROAD LANE

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Date:: 2000-06-20
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1265775
Date first listed:: 29-Mar-1993
List Entry Name:: BLOCK OF TWO GYMNASIA TO SOUTH OF MAIN BLOCK AT WOODLANDS SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: BLOCK OF TWO GYMNASIA TO SOUTH OF MAIN BLOCK AT WOODLANDS SCHOOL, BROAD LANE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: BLOCK OF TWO GYMNASIA TO SOUTH 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 27770 79361

Details

COVENTRY BROAD LANE. WEST MIDLANDS COVENTRY C.B. Block of two Gymnasia to south SP 27 NE of Main Block at 833/21/10003 Woodlands 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. Rectangular block of one to two storeys. Much glazing, in horizontal bands. Painted metal framed windows; plate glass.

An integral part of Woodlands School complex, with Main Block, Workshop and science block, Arts and Crafts block, Gymnasium block, 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: SP2777079361

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 218632
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.