[Closed] Random: Refurbished Victorian School Buildings

my primary school is a prime example.(was then and is now)
it was greenhead coe aided first school greenhead brampton cumbria.

I think victoria primary in edinburgh was recently refurbished. It certainly is still in use as a school

http://www.victoriaprimary.ik.org/home.ikml

Try contacting the BRE - they do BREEAM assessments for schools. Appparently, refurbished primary schools (where the project is >£500k) must meet BREEAM "Very Good".

My primary school in Ripon was redeveloped a couple of years ago into houses. Frankly though the buildings weren't suitable to be a school in this day and age, and nostalgia for the architecture isn't much help to the people who have to learn/work there.

On the other hand it didn't make very good houses.

Does it have to be Victorian? Ours is 1926 and still very fit for purpose, and recently refurbed, but still has a traditional feel.

All my nephews went to Scarcroft school in York. As primary schools go, that is something to behold. Don't know whether it's been refurbished...

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Oh, another one just from 1906, two of my nieces are lined up to go here in a couple of years.
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Bishop Road in Bristol.
Paul Dirac went there.
and so, according to rumour, did Indira Ghandi

midlife - whats the 1926 one called? And that big boy there ^?

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Hampstead School in North London. we put an extra floor on the roof (you can see the curved bit in the middle) and refurbed the ground floor

There's one across the road from me which has been in the process of renovation since I moved in nearly 3 years ago, but its being turned into flats as far as I can tell (or will be when the developer has some money).

Intake Primary, Sidney Road, Doncaster. My kids are there and I'm chair of governors, so I can get you any info you need. Website on a rebuild this week to match our new prospectus. What's this for?

The big boy is Stadium High School, Tacoma, WA. Actually built (as far as a shell) as a Hotel in 1891, but completed as a school in 1906. Tons of info on it if you can google.

My secondary school was a Victorian orphanage - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossley_Heath_School

Lovely, if imposing looking building.

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Jimmy what you doing your research on I might be able to help you?

jesus some of those are bloody scarey places to send small bairns.

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Scotland street school in Glasgow.
Restored as it is a Rennie Mackintosh designed building,still used as a school ,sort of, as it is now a school museum.