1-20, With Car Porch and Attached Timber Fences
1-20, WITH CAR PORCH AND ATTACHED TIMBER FENCES, MERLE GARDENS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1392142
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jan-2007
- List Entry Name:
- 1-20, With Car Porch and Attached Timber Fences
- Statutory Address:
- 1-20, WITH CAR PORCH AND ATTACHED TIMBER FENCES, MERLE GARDENS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1392142
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jan-2007
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 08-Jan-2010
- List Entry Name:
- 1-20, With Car Porch and Attached Timber Fences
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1-20, WITH CAR PORCH AND ATTACHED TIMBER FENCES, MERLE GARDENS
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:
- 1-20, WITH CAR PORCH AND ATTACHED TIMBER FENCES, MERLE GARDENS
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 27104 64026, NZ 27104 64048, NZ 27124 64065, NZ 27125 64036, NZ 27145 64038, NZ 27146 64050
Details
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
NZ 2764SW MERLE GARDENS 1833/31/10154 1-20, with car porch to Bolam Way 22-JAN-07 and attached timber fences
Formerly listed as RABY STREET Byker - Bolam Street (West side) 1-20 Merle Gardens, with car porch to Bolam Way and attached timber fences BOLAM WAY Byker - Bolam Street (West side) 1-20 Merle Gardens, with car porch and attached timber fences
GV II* Square formed of four terraces and some flats. 1976-8 by Ralph Erskine's Arkitektkontor; site architect Vernon Gracie; structural engineer, White, Young and Partners; main contractor, Shepherd Construction. Buff metric modular brick on timber frame, with red brick to corner blocks and to Bolam Way. Dark blue and red weatherboarding to inner area overlooking square. Outer faces with dark blue weatherboarded eaves. Monopitch metal roofs supported on plywood box beam purlins. Two storeys, mainly houses but with flats overlooking Raby Street. Projecting brick porches under sloping metal roofs to Nos. 1-3. Brick carriageway opening between Nos. 4 and 5. No. 6 with projecting timber and brick porch, and projecting timber oriel to upper flat. Nos 8 and 9 have bird boxes; Nos. 9 and 10 are single storey. Timber windows in timber surrounding with aluminium opening lights, mainly sliding; timber doors with glazed panel, many renewed in hardwood. Inner courtyard has raised brick wall, fences and pergolas, particularly to rear of Nos. 1-4. Nos. 14-20 have red brick to elevations overlooking Bolam Way, and form a continuation of Cushat Close (qv), with red and blue eaves weatherboarding and large projecting timber car porch. Carriageway linked by timber-clad heating pipes between Nos. 13 and 14.
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:
- 498960
- 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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