Limbrick Wood School (Infants Block) Coventry, England
Listed Building Data
Limbrick Wood School (Infants Block) 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
- 1076550
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 30 March 1993
- Name
- LIMBRICK WOOD SCHOOL (INFANTS BLOCK)
- Location
- LIMBRICK WOOD SCHOOL (INFANTS BLOCK), BROAD LANELIMBRICK WOOD SCHOOL (INFANTS BLOCK), JOB'S LANE
- District
- Coventry
- Grid Reference
- SP 28748 79112
- Easting
- 428748.0000
- Northing
- 279112.0000
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
COVENTRY BROAD LANE/JOB'S LANE WEST MIDLANDS COVENTRY C.B. Limbrick Wood School (Infants SP 27NE block) 833/21/10014
GV II
Primary school (infants block). 1951-52. Ministry of Education and Coventry City Architects Department. Aluminium frame and corrugated aluminium panel construction, based on the Bristol Aeroplane Company's school building system but adapted to a grid plan. Low pitched roofs. Irregular picturesque grouping with central double height assembly hall with dining area and 3 pairs of lower classrooms opening from it in three projecting limbs. School offices in smaller projecting limb. Classrooms grouped so as to form open court- yards around the perimeter. Large strip windows with aluminium frames and painted aluminium panels below. A prototype school which developed the BAC's system to give it greater flexibility in its plan. (See also juniors block).
A. Saint, Towards a Social Architecture.
Listing NGR: SP2874879112
