12-18, BROCK STREET, 1-9, BRINKBURN SQUARE, 29-37, DIBLEY STREET
1-9, BRINKBURN SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1392134
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jan-2007
- List Entry Name:
- 12-18, BROCK STREET, 1-9, BRINKBURN SQUARE, 29-37, DIBLEY STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 1-9, BRINKBURN SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1392134
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jan-2007
- List Entry Name:
- 12-18, BROCK STREET, 1-9, BRINKBURN SQUARE, 29-37, DIBLEY STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1-9, BRINKBURN SQUARE
- Statutory Address 2:
- 12-18, BROCK STREET
- Statutory Address 3:
- 29-37, DIBLEY STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 1-9, BRINKBURN SQUARE
- Statutory Address:
- 12-18, BROCK STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 29-37, DIBLEY 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 26903 64323, NZ 26922 64303, NZ 26924 64339, NZ 26949 64310
Details
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
NZ2664SE BROCK STREET 1833/30/10144 Byker 22-JAN-07 12-18 DIBLEY STREET Byker 29-37 BRINKBURN SQUARE Byker 1-9
GV II* Terraces of houses and pensioners' bungalows enclosing a square. 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, with dark green weatherboarding to Nos. 2 and 7 Brinkburn Square. Blue metal roofs supported on plywood box beam purlins. Nos. 3 and 4 Brinkburn Square are single storey, the others two storeys. Nos. 1, 2 and 9 with plastic door hoods Nos. 5-8 with projecting porches of green weatherboarding under blue catslide roofs. Nos. 12-18 Brock Street have yellow weatherboarding to rear eaves, a rare use of this colour, with green, white and red below and raised attics at either end of terrace. Timber windows with aluminium opening lights; timber doors with glazed panel, some renewed in hardwood. Interiors not inspected but not thought to be of special interest. 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:
- 498949
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Egelius, M, Ralph Erskine Architect, (1990), 148-160
Architectural Review in December, (1974), 346-362
Architectural Design in June, (1975), 333
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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