Teaching Block With Attached Gymnasium North East 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.
Teaching Block With Attached Gymnasium North East Of Main Block At Woodlands School
- WRENN ID
- rusted-hammer-ochre
- 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. Teaching block with att. SP 27NE Gymnasium NE of Main Block at 833/21/10006 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 Teaching block of three storeys with Gymnasium of one tall storey attached to North. 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, two 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: SP2788179456
Detailed Attributes
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.