FREE GRAMMAR SCHOOL KING HENRY VIII SCHOOL

FREE GRAMMAR SCHOOL, WARWICK ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1342934
Date first listed:: 24-Jun-1974
List Entry Name:: FREE GRAMMAR SCHOOL KING HENRY VIII SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: FREE GRAMMAR SCHOOL, WARWICK ROAD

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Date:: 2000-08-14
Reference:: IOE01/02588/25
Rights:: © Mr Edward Alvey. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1342934
Date first listed:: 24-Jun-1974
List Entry Name:: FREE GRAMMAR SCHOOL KING HENRY VIII SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: FREE GRAMMAR SCHOOL, WARWICK ROAD
Statutory Address 2:: KING HENRY VIII SCHOOL, WARWICK ROAD

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:: FREE GRAMMAR SCHOOL, WARWICK ROAD
Statutory Address:: KING HENRY VIII SCHOOL, WARWICK ROAD

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 32935 78102

Details

1. 5105 WARWICK ROAD ------------ Free Grammar School or King Henry VIII School SP 37 NW 17/389

II

2. 1885 by Edward Burgess, enlarged 1889 and 1936, restored, after bomb damage, 1950. Tudor style. Red brick, stone dressings, tiled roof. Central embattled tower and octagonal turret. Long ranges of 2 storeys and attics either side. Ground floor stone mullioned and transomed lattice casements, squared heads. 1st floor windows with elliptically arched heads, no transoms. 3 gables on left, third projecting with 2 storey canted bay. 1 gable on right, canted bay to side of turret; octagonal turret between wing and later projecting addition in similar style with buttresses, tall parapet screening roof.

Listing NGR: SP3293578102

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Legacy System number:: 218598
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.