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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26341751

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Recommended Books

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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)