Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26341628

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