WOODSIDE JUNIOR SCHOOL
WOODSIDE JUNIOR SCHOOL, MITCHELL WALK
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200392
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1993
- List Entry Name:
- WOODSIDE JUNIOR SCHOOL
- Statutory Address:
- WOODSIDE JUNIOR SCHOOL, MITCHELL WALK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200392
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1993
- List Entry Name:
- WOODSIDE JUNIOR SCHOOL
- Statutory Address 1:
- WOODSIDE JUNIOR SCHOOL, MITCHELL WALK
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- WOODSIDE JUNIOR SCHOOL, MITCHELL WALK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Amersham
- National Grid Reference:
- SU9729198369
Details
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, CHILTERN, MITCHELL WALK
AMERSHAM
SU 99 NE,
166/3/10001, Woodside Junior School
II
Junior School. 1956-57. Mary and David Medd of Ministry of
Education. Buff brick and painted timber cladding. Flat roof,
except for hall which is taller, with mono-pitched roof.
Irregular picturesque plan with hall and lower music/dining
room at the core and classrooms in two groups of four,
extending to south-east from either end. Single storeyed.
Deep strip windows to classrooms with solid spandrels below;
floor to ceiling windows facing courtyard to hall and dining
areas. The first true 'rationalised traditional' school,
built as a prototype by the Ministry of Education.
A. Saint, Towards a Social Architecture.
Listing NGR: SU9729198369
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 350331
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Saint, A, Towards a Social Architecture: The Role of School-Building in Post-War England, (1987)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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