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Binswood Hall, Binswood Avenue - Grade 2* listed. English Heritage Building ID: 481550
In image- School. Leamington College for Boys.
Former previous incarnation as a Girls' Convent School then
Leamington College for Boys, a Boys Grammar School, which opened in 1848.
From 1903-1916 it was occupied by the
Society of the Sacred Heart, a French Catholic convent school.
During the rest of the First World War it was occupied by
Dover College, and then once more (1922) Leamington College.
This school merged with a secondary modern school, in 1977 to form a comprehensive.
1977 Three schools merged- Blackdown High School (Park Road site), Leamington College for Girls, a girls grammar school (Cloister Way site) and Leamington College for Boys (Binswood Hall site) on Binswood Avenue - this Binswood Hall site became the 6th Form Centre.
In September 2009, a completely new school was opened on another site.
This site today- due to be completed 2015, grade II-listed Binswood Hall is to become a 'retirement village' for over 55s featuring 90 apartments.
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