Basic Site Details | Name: | Ashton and Lea County Primary School | | Town, district or village: | Preston | | City or county: | Lancashire | | Country: | England | | Parish: | | | Status: | | | Grid ref: | | | Notes: | One Form entry Junior and Infants School. This school is for 320 boys and girls. The site is level, 6.72 acres in extent in a recently developed neighbourhood on the outskirts of Preston. A sun-trap play space is a feature of the infants unit and all classrooms have additional lighting from roof lay-lights, diffused into the rooms by special louvres in the ceilings. Construction is light steel framing with external brick facings, the roof being pitched and sheathed in copper [Builder 17 December 1948 p703]
Revised regulations under the 1944 Education Act for day-lighting, accommodation and equipment caused radical changes in school design | Building Type Classification| The building is classified under the following categories: | | | Classification | Original classification? | Notes |  | School | | |
PeopleDesign and Construction| The following individuals or organisations have carried out design/construction work. Where architects or practices worked together, matching letters appear beside their names in the Partnership Group column. | | | Name | Role | Partnership Group | From | To | Notes | | (Sir) John Burnet, Tait & Lorne | Architectural practice | | 1948 | | Builder gives practice as Sir John Burnet, Tait & Partners, 10 Bedford Square London WC1
| | G Noel Hill | Architect | | 1948 | | Lancashire County Architect |
Clients| The following individuals or organisations have commissioned work on this building/design: | | | Name | Notes | | Lancashire County Council | |
ReferencesPeriodical References| The following periodicals contain references to this building: | | | Periodical Name | Date | Edition | Publisher | Notes | | Builder | 8 October 1948 | | | p429
| | Builder | 17 December 1948 | | | pp702-703 (Lancashire Schools) p705 plan and illustration |
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