NOS. 14-50 (EVEN) WITH ATTACHED WALLS, ARCHWAY AND FENCES; NOS. 23-53, WITH ATTACHED WALLS, ARCHWAY AND FENCES

NOS. 14-50 (EVEN) WITH ATTACHED WALLS, ARCHWAY AND FENCES, COMMERCIAL ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1392147
Date first listed:: 22-Jan-2007
List Entry Name:: NOS. 14-50 (EVEN) WITH ATTACHED WALLS, ARCHWAY AND FENCES; NOS. 23-53, WITH ATTACHED WALLS, ARCHWAY AND FENCES
Statutory Address:: NOS. 14-50 (EVEN) WITH ATTACHED WALLS, ARCHWAY AND FENCES, COMMERCIAL ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1392147
Date first listed:: 22-Jan-2007
List Entry Name:: NOS. 14-50 (EVEN) WITH ATTACHED WALLS, ARCHWAY AND FENCES; NOS. 23-53, WITH ATTACHED WALLS, ARCHWAY AND FENCES
Statutory Address 1:: NOS. 14-50 (EVEN) WITH ATTACHED WALLS, ARCHWAY AND FENCES, COMMERCIAL ROAD
Statutory Address 2:: NOS. 23-53, WITH ATTACHED WALLS, ARCHWAY AND FENCES, ST PETER'S ROAD

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. 14-50 (EVEN) WITH ATTACHED WALLS, ARCHWAY AND FENCES, COMMERCIAL ROAD
Statutory Address:: NOS. 23-53, WITH ATTACHED WALLS, ARCHWAY AND FENCES, ST PETER'S ROAD

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 27268 64158, NZ 27303 64161, NZ 27346 64174, NZ 27379 64098

Details

NZ2764SW ST PETER'S ROAD 1833/31/10157 BYKER 22-JAN-07 (West side) NOS.23-53, WITH ATTACHED WALLS, ARCHWA Y AND FENCES COMMERCIAL ROAD BYKER (South side) NOS. 14-50 (EVEN) WITH ATTACHED WALLS, ARCHWAY AND FENCES

GV II* Terraces of houses and four flats (nos. 23-25 and nos. 49-51 St Peter's Road). 1978-81 by Ralph Erskine's Arkitektkontor; site architect Vernon Gracie; structural engineer, White, Young and Partners; main contractor, Fairclough Buildings Ltd. Red brick to street, pale brick to rear courtyard and private gardens. Commercial Road with pale brick rear alternating every two or three houses between red-brown and brown weatherboarded eaves over first-floor strip windows, and full red-brown weatherboarding. Concrete tiled roofs of Marley Modern tiles, those to Commercial Road stepped, mostly in pairs but no. 44 is a single one. Steps on street elevation to flats, of timber with sloping timber roofs; projecting first-floor balconies behind, in red-brown timber. Windows of timber in timber surrounds with aluminium opening lights (mainly sliding); timber doors with glazed panel, many originals surviving, under red metal door hoods. Bird box to no. 53 St Peter's Road. Brick arch with timber portal, shielding stone entrance way with pediment and half columns allegedly from Elswick Hall - one of the last and largest examples of the architectural salvage found throughout the Byker estate, and wall links no. 53 to no. 50 Commercial Road. Bird box to no. 50 Commercial Road, and to every stepped pair down the slope. Brown fences to Commercial Road and St Peter's Road gardens an integral part of the composition.

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:: 498963
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.