Main Block At Woodlands School Including Administration And Main Entrance, Main And Small Hall, Gym And Library is a Grade II listed building in the Coventry local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1993. School. 7 related planning applications.
Main Block At Woodlands School Including Administration And Main Entrance, Main And Small Hall, Gym And Library
- WRENN ID
- ragged-flagstone-thyme
- 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. Main Block at Woodlands School SP 27NE inc. Admin and 833/21/10002 Main Entrance, Main and Small Hall, Gym and Library
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 one and two storeys. Much glazing, in horizontal bands. Painted metal framed windows; plate glass. To wall of Main Hall coloured concrete slabs form simple pattern.
An integral part of Woodlands School complex, with Workshop and science 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: SP2781679388
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