Teaching Block Due E of Main Block at Woodlands School Coventry, England
Listed Building Data
Teaching Block Due E of Main Block at Woodlands School has been designated a Grade II listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1076547
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 30 March 1993
- Name
- TEACHING BLOCK DUE EAST OF MAIN BLOCK AT WOODLANDS SCHOOL
- Location
- TEACHING BLOCK DUE EAST OF MAIN BLOCK AT WOODLANDS SCHOOL, BROAD LANE
- District
- Coventry
- Grid Reference
- SP 27896 79390
- Easting
- 427896.0000
- Northing
- 279390.0000
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
COVENTRY BROAD LANE. WEST MIDLANDS COVENTRY C.B. Teaching block due east of Main SP 27NE Block at 833/21/10008 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 two storeys with projection to the 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 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: SP2789679390
