Avondale House With Attached Fences Walls and Steps
AVONDALE HOUSE WITH ATTACHED FENCES WALLS AND STEPS, 50, RABY WAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1392156
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jan-2007
- List Entry Name:
- Avondale House With Attached Fences Walls and Steps
- Statutory Address:
- AVONDALE HOUSE WITH ATTACHED FENCES WALLS AND STEPS, 50, RABY WAY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1392156
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jan-2007
- List Entry Name:
- Avondale House With Attached Fences Walls and Steps
- Statutory Address 1:
- AVONDALE HOUSE WITH ATTACHED FENCES WALLS AND STEPS, 50, RABY WAY
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:
- AVONDALE HOUSE WITH ATTACHED FENCES WALLS AND STEPS, 50, RABY WAY
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:
- NZ2712564390
Details
NZ2764SW RABY WAY 1833/31/10166 BYKER 22-JAN-07 (West side) 50 AVONDALE HOUSE WITH ATTACHED FENCES WA LLS AND STEPS (Formerly Included: RABY WAY BYKER NOS. 51-54, WITH ATTACHED FENCES, WALL S AND STEPS)
GV II* Sheltered block of 36 flats with warden's accommodation. 1979-82 by by Ralph Erskine's Arkitektkontor; site architect Vernon Gracie; structural engineer, White, Young and Partners; main contractor, Stanley Miller Ltd. Pale yellow metric modular brick on concrete block construction; Marley Modern tiled roofs. One, two and three storeys sunk slightly into slope of hillside. North side with green weatherboarding to second floor and projecting first-floor oriel with strip windows on concrete stilts. Raby Street elevation of two storeys with projecting brown timber balconies on green frames under sloping roofs at first floor. Raby Way elevation with green weatherboarding on long banded elevation with prominent corner columns defining entrance. South elevation has more independent units of one and two storeys, with attached warden's house of two storeys with high monopitch roof and green weatherboarding, entered up steps set around low bastion retaining wall. Two single-storey units entered via same steps, which with the wall form an integral part of the composition. Timber windows in timber surrounds with aluminium opening lights, mainly sliding; blue doors to single-storey units. Interiors not inspected. To Raby Street green timber fences and to Mason Street green steel railings are 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:
- 498973
- 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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