Block Of Two Gymnasia To South Of Main Block At Woodlands School is a Grade II listed building in the Coventry local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1993. School building.
Block Of Two Gymnasia To South Of Main Block At Woodlands School
- WRENN ID
- deep-hammer-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Coventry
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1993
- Type
- School building
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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
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