Lady Bankes School building (Ruislip) | Streamline Moderne (architecture), Art Deco (architecture), 1936_construction, Grade II Listed (UK)

 school, Streamline Moderne (architecture), Art Deco (architecture), 1936_construction, Grade II Listed (UK)

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Heritage Category: Listed Building. Grade: IIю

School. 1935-6, by W T Curtis and H W Burchett. Steel frame clad in pale orange brick with beige brick bands and concrete details; flat roofs not visible. Rectangular plan with central courtyard. Modernist style inspired by the work of W M Dudok. 2-storey, 12-window range with continuous concrete lintels and cill bands to iron casement windows set in beige brick surrounds, flanked by 2-storey stair tower to left with concrete lintel and cill band to tall stair light, and taller stair tower to right with prominent swept lintel over one-light windows and central door with stepped jambs, tall stair-light broken by projecting concrete lintels, plain concrete frieze and projecting parapet and octagonal lantern to roof. Flanked by similar 2-storey, 5-window ranges and one-storey blocks, with plainer rear elevation flanked by slightly- projecting blocks housing stairs. Interior: plain with brick walling. (Architecture Illustrated, Nov 1936)

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