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Latitude: 52.4118 / 52°24'42"N
Longitude: -1.5925 / 1°35'32"W
OS Eastings: 427816
OS Northings: 279388
OS Grid: SP278793
Mapcode National: GBR 5KL.L7N
Mapcode Global: VHBWX.BMZZ
Plus Code: 9C4WCC65+P2
Entry Name: Main Block at Woodlands School Including Administration and Main Entrance, Main and Small Hall, Gym and Library
Listing Date: 30 March 1993
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1076585
English Heritage Legacy ID: 218631
ID on this website: 101076585
Location: Hockley, Coventry, West Midlands, CV5
County: Coventry
Electoral Ward/Division: Woodlands
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Coventry
Traditional County: Warwickshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Midlands
Church of England Parish: Tile Hill St Oswald
Church of England Diocese: Coventry
Tagged with: Building
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
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