NOS. 2-44, WITH ATTACHED WALL, PERGOLA AND FENCES TO FRONT AND REAR, INCLUDING NO.26A (BYKER PHOTOGRAPHIC WORKSHOP)

NOS. 2-44, WITH ATTACHED WALL, PERGOLA AND FENCES TO FRONT AND REAR, INCLUDING NO.26A (BYKER PHOTOGRAPHIC WORKSHOP), RABY WAY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1392160
Date first listed:: 22-Jan-2007
List Entry Name:: NOS. 2-44, WITH ATTACHED WALL, PERGOLA AND FENCES TO FRONT AND REAR, INCLUDING NO.26A (BYKER PHOTOGRAPHIC WORKSHOP)
Statutory Address:: NOS. 2-44, WITH ATTACHED WALL, PERGOLA AND FENCES TO FRONT AND REAR, INCLUDING NO.26A (BYKER PHOTOGRAPHIC WORKSHOP), RABY WAY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1392160
Date first listed:: 22-Jan-2007
List Entry Name:: NOS. 2-44, WITH ATTACHED WALL, PERGOLA AND FENCES TO FRONT AND REAR, INCLUDING NO.26A (BYKER PHOTOGRAPHIC WORKSHOP)
Statutory Address 1:: NOS. 2-44, WITH ATTACHED WALL, PERGOLA AND FENCES TO FRONT AND REAR, INCLUDING NO.26A (BYKER PHOTOGRAPHIC WORKSHOP), RABY WAY

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. 2-44, WITH ATTACHED WALL, PERGOLA AND FENCES TO FRONT AND REAR, INCLUDING NO.26A (BYKER PHOTOGRAPHIC WORKSHOP), 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:: NZ 27068 64569, NZ 27073 64592, NZ 27077 64537, NZ 27082 64511, NZ 27087 64524, NZ 27092 64480, NZ 27104 64448, NZ 27104 64463

Details

NZ2764NW RABY WAY 1833/27/10170 BYKER 22-JAN-07 (West side) NOS. 2-44, WITH ATTACHED WALL, PERGOLA AND FENCES TO FRONT AND REAR, INCLUDI NG NO.26A (BYKER PHOTOGRAPHIC WORKSHOP)

GV II* Five short terraces of houses, two individual houses (nos. 2 and 20) and a semi-detached pair (nos. 42 and 44). 1978-9 by Ralph Erskine's Arkitektkontor; site architect Vernon Gracie; structural engineer, White, Young and Partners; main contractor, Shepherd Construction. Pale brick metric modular brick construction on timber frame, partly clad in weatherboarding, low-pitched metal roofs on plywood box beam purlins. Two storeys. The terraces provide incident by being set at right angles to the street, with side doors and linking fences. No. 2 has green timber windows and green weatherboarded eaves, green fence link to no. 4. Nos. 4-10 with green and red weatherboarding, and green weatherboarding to rear. Projecting brick porches all of brick with blue roofs, and prominent red door to side of no. 4. Nos. 12-18 with green and red weatherboarded eaves, and green weatherboarding to rear; green door hoods. Green bird boxes to either end. No. 20 has green weatherboarding to front and rear, with round bastion garden feature wall to rear behind green fences. Fence link to nos. 12-18. Nos. 22-26 and 26a (the Byker Photographic Workshop) has green weatherboarding, with a red vertical band between units. Green weatherboarding to single-storey workshop, which has a red door; blue roofs to brick porches on nos. 24 and 26. Nos. 28-34 have green and brown weatherboarding with red vertical bands between units; sloping roof over end garage to no. 26; blue door hoods. Green bird box to no. 34. Pergola link between no. 34 and no. 36, with have green weatherboarded flank walls. Nos. 36-44 form an `L'-shaped terrace, with black bird boxes to nos. 40 and 42. Weatherboarded eaves of green with red vertical stripes to nos. 36-40, blue first-floor weatherboarding to nos. 42 and 44. Red and blue doors with horizontal panels under blue hoods. Windows of timber in timber surrounds with aluminium opening lights. Timber doors, of special interest where noted, otherwise with some replacements in hardwood. Interiors not inspected. This is a particularly charming group for the incidence of decorative detailing such as linking walls and fences, with bird boxes to many end walls providing accents to the street.

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:: 498997
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.