THE BROADWAY COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL

THE BROADWAY COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL, WHITEHEAD ROAD B6

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1289998
Date first listed:: 08-Jul-1982
List Entry Name:: THE BROADWAY COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: THE BROADWAY COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL, WHITEHEAD ROAD B6

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1289998
Date first listed:: 08-Jul-1982
List Entry Name:: THE BROADWAY COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: THE BROADWAY COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL, WHITEHEAD ROAD B6

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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Location

Statutory Address:: THE BROADWAY COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL, WHITEHEAD ROAD B6

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

District:: Birmingham (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SP 07444 89681

Details

WHITEHEAD ROAD 1. 5104 Aston B6 The Broadway Comprehensive School SP 08 NE 7/91 II 2. A very richly modelled design for a Board School. Principally buff terracotta with red brick, combining English Baroque theme with Art Nouveau rather than Birmingham Arts and Crafts, decorative sculptural detailing. The main block, the central hall, is of 5 bays on a tall basement flanked by Girls and Boys entrances bridging the area. Extending out behind are 2 storey and basement wings with 3 storey octagonal towers. The hall block has a steeply pitched hipped slate roof with small mannered Baroque oeuil de boeuf dormers. A giant Roman Doric order, all of terracotta, articulates the hall elevation. Engaged columns in antis with projecting double columned centrepiece surmounted by segmental pediment. Blocking to lower parts of column shafts. Ornate console bracketed terracotta eaves cornice. Behind the pediment is a bland terracotta attic crowned by octagonal, columned cupola. Rusticated terracotta is carried down into basement. Tall windows occupy virtually the full width of the inter columniations with thin terracotta architraves, south work in friezes and moulded cornices topped by small round vents. Centre has larger archivolt arched window. Partially encroaching on this elevation are the 2 entrance arches, far more Art Nouveau in design, all of terracotta with entasised corner turrets blending into gables over deep voussoired archways, their surrounds merging in turn into the parapets bridging the area and flanking the steps. The arch drip moulds flow from "Rococo" cartouches, on turrets, vested by 3 very naturalistically modelled children's heads in high relief. The drip moulds rise to delicate female head keystones, the hair flowing out to form cartouches and crests. The set back wings of red brick have terracotta banding. The 3 storey octagonal turrets have lavish terracotta dressings to top stage with Art Nouveau consoles to the angles below eaves of shallow lead dormers crowned by bellcots. Plain brick terracotta banded side elevations have large Diocletian windows below approximately central gables. The basement level on west side has side entrance with heavy terracotta arched cornice hood encasing egg shaped light above remarkable shallow relief modelling of semi-circular archway with head keystone, the pair merging once again into free flowing cartouche. The rear elevation principally brick with terracotta dressings and distinguished from front by a series of gables, the theme of ogee Diocletians being repeated from sides. A small but distinctive detail are the Art Nouveau terracotta brick vents pierced by ovoid "bone" framed apertures. The siting of the school across the tangent between 2 streets heightens the tension of the composition.

Listing NGR: SP0744489681

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Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.