Limbrick Wood School (Junior Block) is a Grade II listed building in the Coventry local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1993. School.
Limbrick Wood School (Junior Block)
- WRENN ID
- outer-render-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Coventry
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1993
- Type
- School
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
COVENTRY BROAD LANE/JOB'S LANE WEST MIDLANDS COVENTRY C.B. Limbrick Wood School (Junior SP 27NE block) 833/21/10013
GV II
Primary school (juniors block). 1951-52. Ministry of Education and Coventry City Architects Department. Aluminium frame and corrugated aluminium panel construction, based on the Bristol Aeroplane Company's school building system but adapted to a grid plan. Low pitched roofs. Irregular picturesque grouping. Central assembly hall of double height, giving access to four pairs of lower, single storeyed class- room blocks and a kitchen and dining areas. Classrooms grouped so as to form open courtyards around perimeter. Large strip windows with aluminium frames and painted aluminium panels below. A prototype school which developed the BAC's system to give it greater flexibility in its plan. (See also infants block).
A. Saint, Towards a Social Architecture.
Listing NGR: SP2878179190
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