NOS. 85-105, WITH ATTACHED FENCES

NOS. 85-105, WITH ATTACHED FENCES, 85-105, RABY STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1392157
Date first listed:: 22-Jan-2007
List Entry Name:: NOS. 85-105, WITH ATTACHED FENCES
Statutory Address:: NOS. 85-105, WITH ATTACHED FENCES, 85-105, RABY STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1392157
Date first listed:: 22-Jan-2007
List Entry Name:: NOS. 85-105, WITH ATTACHED FENCES
Statutory Address 1:: NOS. 85-105, WITH ATTACHED FENCES, 85-105, RABY 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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: NOS. 85-105, WITH ATTACHED FENCES, 85-105, RABY 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 27103 64350, NZ 27112 64322, NZ 27119 64291

Details

NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE

NZ2764SW RABY STREET 1833/31/10167 Byker 22-JAN-07 (East side) 85-105 Nos. 85-105, with attached fences

GV II*

Varied terrace of houses. 1979-82 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 with weatherboard cladding; Marley Modern tiled roofs. Two and three storeys. No. 85 is a house, of two storeys with brown and blue weatherboarding to first floor at window level under eaves, and projecting brown weatherboarded porch under sloping tiled roof. Nos 87-9 are three-storey houses, with green weatherboarding to first and second floor, with blue weatherboarding to eaves and projecting first-floor balconies with brown timber balustrades and planting boxes on green subframe. Blue doors. Green bird boxes at either end. Nos. 91-3 are also three storeys, but lower, with green weatherboarding, save for blue vertical strip and second-floor eaves, and a brown bird box to no. 93. Red doors and metal door hoods. Nos. 95-97 of two storeys, with brown and blue weatherboarding forming a strip between first floor windows, deep ground-floor windows painted blue. Projecting brick porches with brown weatherboarded fronts and sloping tiled roofs. Vertical brown weatherboarding to rear. No. 99 of three storeys, with green weatherboarding, save for blue weatherboarding around second-floor windows and eaves. Green timber to windows. Red door and red metal door hood. Triangular fencing to either side. High-level timber link via timber heating casing to Nos. 101-5, which are three-storey, with brown weatherboarding and windows (blue eaves), and red door hoods. Distinctive white brickwork round the door to no. 105. All windows of timber in timber surrounds with aluminium opening lights; timber doors with glazed panel, some renewed in hardwood where not specifically noted as important to the composition. This is a long and prominent group on the principal pedestrian route through the Byker estate.

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:: 498974
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.