NOS. 1-27, WITH ATTACHED GARDEN FENCES AND RETAINING BRICK WALLS AND PERGOLA NOS. 15 AND 17, WITH ATTACHED GARDEN FENCES AND RETAINING BRICK WALLS AND PERGOLA

NOS. 1-27, WITH ATTACHED GARDEN FENCES AND RETAINING BRICK WALLS AND PERGOLA, DIBLEY STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1392131
Date first listed:: 22-Jan-2007
List Entry Name:: NOS. 1-27, WITH ATTACHED GARDEN FENCES AND RETAINING BRICK WALLS AND PERGOLA NOS. 15 AND 17, WITH ATTACHED GARDEN FENCES AND RETAINING BRICK WALLS AND PERGOLA
Statutory Address:: NOS. 1-27, WITH ATTACHED GARDEN FENCES AND RETAINING BRICK WALLS AND PERGOLA, DIBLEY STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1392131
Date first listed:: 22-Jan-2007
List Entry Name:: NOS. 1-27, WITH ATTACHED GARDEN FENCES AND RETAINING BRICK WALLS AND PERGOLA NOS. 15 AND 17, WITH ATTACHED GARDEN FENCES AND RETAINING BRICK WALLS AND PERGOLA
Statutory Address 1:: NOS. 1-27, WITH ATTACHED GARDEN FENCES AND RETAINING BRICK WALLS AND PERGOLA, DIBLEY STREET
Statutory Address 2:: NOS. 15 AND 17, WITH ATTACHED GARDEN FENCES AND RETAINING BRICK WALLS AND PERGOLA, BROCK STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: NOS. 1-27, WITH ATTACHED GARDEN FENCES AND RETAINING BRICK WALLS AND PERGOLA, DIBLEY STREET
Statutory Address:: NOS. 15 AND 17, WITH ATTACHED GARDEN FENCES AND RETAINING BRICK WALLS AND PERGOLA, BROCK STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Newcastle upon Tyne (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: NZ 26912 64368, NZ 26929 64361

Details

NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE

NZ2664SE DIBLEY STREET 1833/30/10142 Byker - Gordon Road 22-JAN-07 Nos. 1-27, with attached garden fences and retaining brick walls and pergola BROCK STREET Byker - Gordon Road Nos. 15 and 17, with attached garden f ences and retaining brick walls and pe rgola

GV II*

`L'-shaped terrace of houses, flats and pensioners' bungalows. 1974-6 by Ralph Erskine's Arkitektkontor; site architect Vernon Gracie; structural engineer, White, Young and Partners; main contractor, Shepherd Construction. Pale metric modular brick on timber frame, turquoise blue metal roofs supported on plywood box beam purlins. Two storeys, save for Nos. 15 and 17, which are the bungalows. Timber windows with aluminium opening lights. No. 5 set back down entry, with high brown weatherboarding over; a similar feature to no.1. Windows to first floor of Nos. 5-13, 19-27 in long strips in bright green timber surrounds under deep eaves. Timber doors with glazed panel, some renewed in hardwood, those to 5-27 set in projecting porches with vertical green timber cladding. Gardens entered up steps between retaining brick walls, which extends to a decorative curved planter in front of no. 5. Interiors not inspected. Central pergola at the corner of Dibley Street and Brock Street is an integral part of the composition. The group forms a square, the distinctive idiom of the Gordon Road neighbourhood.

HISTORY: see under Nos 1-75 Dunn Terrace.

SOURCES: see under Nos 1-75 Dunn Terrace.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 498947
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Egelius, M, Ralph Erskine Architect, (1990), 148-160
'Architectural Design' in June, (1975), 333
'Architectural Review' in December, (1974), 346-362

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.