West End School Special Classroom (1930)

This building was constructed in 1930 as a special education classroom. It is significant as a 'Taranaki Type Fresh Air Classroom', and was designed by Taranaki Education Board architect Charles Howard Moore. This type of classroom was claimed to be an improvement on the earlier 'Fendalton Type Fresh Air Classroom'.

West End School first opened in 1884 at a site on the southwestern corner of St Aubyn Street and Cutfield Road - the school moved to its present site in 1926-27.

All other old buildings on the school site have now been demolished, and the special education classroom is significant as the oldest surviving building associated with West End School.

Documents

Stratford Evening Post, 23 May 1930