1970s school building, Leicester building, The Walden School (EHER 81122)

The new ‘specialist’ teaching block the Leicester Building was completed in 1975, providing six classrooms (two modern languages, two mathematics, one history, one English) and named after Mark Leicester, one of the benefactors of the Saffron Walden School (EHER 81116). It is a two-storey structure of red brick in English bond with a pitched roof and PVCu double-glazed windows.

June 2023. Heritage assessment. The new ‘specialist’ teaching block the Leicester Building was completed in 1975, providing six classrooms (two modern languages, two mathematics, one history, one English) and named after Mark Leicester, one of the benefactors of the Saffron Walden School (EHER 81116). This apparently completed the separation of education and recreation at the school, a notion which had been planned for since the 1940s and alluded to in the Board of Education Report of 1940. Whilst the building was not accessible at the time of survey due asbestos remediation, it was possible to provide an account of the exterior of the building. It is a two-storey structure of red brick in English bond with a pitched roof and PVCu double-glazed windows. Its character is similar to that of the Crosfield building (EHER 81121) but with smaller windows. Without internal inspection any other comparison was not possible. <1>