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The houses comprise a combined living room/kitchen and large study bedroom on the ground floor, and smaller study bedrooms and a bathroom on the first floor. The curved walls of the downstairs study are lined with blackboards, built to the specification that they should be high enough for the
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mathematician to work but also "low enough for small children to use the bottom bit."
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and Bill Howell. Their construction was supported by a £50,000 grant from the
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and were built between 1968 and 1969 to the design of architect
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and were opened in June of that year by then Vice-Chancellor
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Zeeman, Christopher; Harrison, Jeff; Smith, Jill (2004).
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Grade II* listed buildings in the West Midlands (county)
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Gibbet Hill
Warwick University
Gibbet Hill Campus
Coventry
England
Coordinates
52°22′32″N 1°33′02″W / 52.375426°N 1.550506°W / 52.375426; -1.550506
Bill Howell
RIBA
University of Warwick
Grade II* listed
Bill Howell
Jack Butterworth
Sir Christopher Zeeman
Nuffield Foundation
RIBA

Grade II* listed buildings in Coventry



"Maths Houses' Listed Status"
University of Warwick


Historic England
"Houses for Visiting Mathematicians, University of Warwick (1392017)"
National Heritage List for England
"The Histories of Mathematics & Statistics at Warwick"

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