Description

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

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)