House Block To East Of Linked Teaching And Gymnasium Blocks, At Woodlands School is a Grade II listed building in the Coventry local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1993. School.

House Block To East Of Linked Teaching And Gymnasium Blocks, At Woodlands School

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Coventry
Country
England
Date first listed
30 March 1993
Type
School
Source
Historic England listing

Description

COVENTRY BROAD LANE. WEST MIDLANDS COVENTRY C.B. House block to E. of linked Teaching SP 27NE and Gymnasium 833/21/10011 Blocks, at 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. Irregular 'L' shaped block of one and 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, block of two further gymnasia, three further Teaching blocks and four further 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: SP2791679441

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