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Lonslade Special School Stevenage, Hertfordshire. Historic Building Assessment |
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Albion Archaeology unpublished report series
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Report (in Series)
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Abstract: |
Under the Building Schools for the Future programme Lonsdale Special School will give up its existing campus and move to a new purpose-built site co-located with the Marriots School in its expanded grounds. The existing buildings at Lonsdale School are earmarked for complete demolition and the area of the campus will be developed for housing. As part of this programme, Albion Archaeology produced a desk-based assessment (2008) which identified the need for an assessment of the buildings at Lonsdale Special School. This was followed by a Historic Building recording. Lonsdale Special School is a purpose-built special school that was built between 1969 and 1971. It was part of the large-scale post-war school building programme that had led to the development of pioneering techniques of prefabricated construction, in which Hertfordshire County Council had played a leading role. The school was built using the standard SEAC system of prefabricated construction that was utilised for all school building in Hertfordshire from 1966 onwards. The system was deemed flexible enough for the demands of a special needs school and seems to have served its purpose well over the last few decades. Apart from small scale internal renovation and alterations, the school buildings have changed little since their construction. The school is a standard example of a SEAC MK2 brick and steel type construction and its interest lies in the utilisation of this system for the purposes of a special needs school. |
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Joe Abrams
C Meckseper
H Cooper-Reade
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Publisher: |
Albion Archaeology
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Year of Publication: |
2009
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Stevenage, unparished area |
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Stevenage |
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England |
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Hertfordshire |
Grid Reference: 524748, 225209 (Easting, Northing)
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albionar1-84906 |
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2009/32 |
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Created Date: |
11 Jul 2023 |