Workshop And Science Block To North 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.

Workshop And Science Block To North Of Main Block At Woodlands School

WRENN ID
hidden-gable-sienna
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. Workshop and Science Block to SP 27NE N. of Main Block at Woodlands 833/21/10005 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. Irregular block of five storeys with single storey blocks to east and west. Much glazing, in horizontal bands. Painted metal framed windows; plate glass. Three projecting balconies to south face.

An integral part of Woodlands School complex, with Main Block, Arts and Crafts block, Gymnasium block, block of two further gymnasia, 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: SP2782579440

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