1-17 (ODD) AND 2-30 (EVEN), WITH ATTACHED WALLS, FENCES, PERGOLA AND STEPS NOS. 130 AND 132, WITH ATTACHED WALLS, FENCES, PERGOLA AND STEPS

1-17 (ODD) AND 2-30 (EVEN), WITH ATTACHED WALLS, FENCES, PERGOLA AND STEPS, MICHAELGATE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1392170
Date first listed:: 22-Jan-2007
List Entry Name:: 1-17 (ODD) AND 2-30 (EVEN), WITH ATTACHED WALLS, FENCES, PERGOLA AND STEPS NOS. 130 AND 132, WITH ATTACHED WALLS, FENCES, PERGOLA AND STEPS
Statutory Address:: 1-17 (ODD) AND 2-30 (EVEN), WITH ATTACHED WALLS, FENCES, PERGOLA AND STEPS, MICHAELGATE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1392170
Date first listed:: 22-Jan-2007
List Entry Name:: 1-17 (ODD) AND 2-30 (EVEN), WITH ATTACHED WALLS, FENCES, PERGOLA AND STEPS NOS. 130 AND 132, WITH ATTACHED WALLS, FENCES, PERGOLA AND STEPS
Statutory Address 1:: 1-17 (ODD) AND 2-30 (EVEN), WITH ATTACHED WALLS, FENCES, PERGOLA AND STEPS, MICHAELGATE
Statutory Address 2:: NOS. 130 AND 132, WITH ATTACHED WALLS, FENCES, PERGOLA AND STEPS, HEADLAM 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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Location

Statutory Address:: 1-17 (ODD) AND 2-30 (EVEN), WITH ATTACHED WALLS, FENCES, PERGOLA AND STEPS, MICHAELGATE
Statutory Address:: NOS. 130 AND 132, WITH ATTACHED WALLS, FENCES, PERGOLA AND STEPS, HEADLAM 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 27244 64510, NZ 27253 64521, NZ 27275 64539, NZ 27277 64555, NZ 27284 64521

Details

NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE

NZ2764NW MICHAELGATE 1833/27/10181 Byker 22-JAN-07 1-17 (odd) and 2-30 (even), with attac hed walls, fences, pergola and steps HEADLAM STREET Byker (Southwest side) Nos. 130 and 132, with attached walls, fences, pergola and steps

GV II*

Three terraces of houses, one pair of houses and one `stilt' block of flats. 1978-80 by Ralph Erskine's Arkitektkontor; site architect Vernon Gracie; structural engineer, White, Young and Partners; main contractor Fairclough Building Limited.. Pale metric modular brick cladding to concrete block work cross-wall construction, with concrete Marley Modern tiled roof save to flats (Nos 10-14 even). Two storeys, save for stilt block of flats of three storeys raised over open ground floor. Nos. 1-5 (odd) have blue weatherboarding to front, with brown and blue at first floor level; green fences to rear. The gap between Nos. 5 and 7 is filled by bird boxes, heating link and pergola. Nos. 7-17 (odd) with brown weatherboarding to front, with blue spurs between first-floor windows; projecting brick porches with fronts clad in weatherboarding. Nos. 2-8 have blue and brown first-floor weatherboarding to front set between windows, and red brick retaining walls to front. Nos. 2-4 (even) have green weatherboarding and brick fences to rear. Nos. 10-14 (even) are three-storey flats entered via open stairs to left. Green balcony, and green fencing underneath. South-facing front overlooking dramatic fall in hillside, has blue balconies. Red brick retaining walls and brown fences a part of the composition. Nos. 16-30 (even) are fully weatherboarded, with red to Nos. 16-22 and 26, brown to no. 24 and blue to Nos. 28 and 30. Bird box to no. 16, projecting porches to Nos. 20 and 22, 26-30; Nos. 16, 18 and 24 with blue metal door hoods. Bird box to no. 30. Red brick retaining walls with brown fences. Windows of timber in timber subframes with aluminium opening lights, save to no. 17 which have been renewed in uPVC. Timber doors, some renewed in hardwood. Interiors not inspected. Blue timber pergola with plastic sheet roof an integral part of the design. A good late group on the top of the hill.

HISTORY: see Nos 1-75 Dunn Terrace.

SOURCES: see Nos 1-75 Dunn Terrace.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 499010
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.