18-22 With Attached Fences and Garages to the Rear 4,5 and 6 With Attached Fences 7-21, With Attached Community Centre to Corner
18-22 WITH ATTACHED FENCES AND GARAGES TO THE REAR, SPIRES LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1392174
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jan-2007
- List Entry Name:
- 18-22 With Attached Fences and Garages to the Rear 4,5 and 6 With Attached Fences 7-21, With Attached Community Centre to Corner
- Statutory Address:
- 18-22 WITH ATTACHED FENCES AND GARAGES TO THE REAR, SPIRES LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1392174
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jan-2007
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 08-Jan-2010
- List Entry Name:
- 18-22 With Attached Fences and Garages to the Rear 4,5 and 6 With Attached Fences 7-21, With Attached Community Centre to Corner
- Statutory Address 1:
- 18-22 WITH ATTACHED FENCES AND GARAGES TO THE REAR, SPIRES LANE
- Statutory Address 2:
- 4,5 AND 6 WITH ATTACHED FENCES, GRACE STREET
- Statutory Address 3:
- 7-21, WITH ATTACHED COMMUNITY CENTRE TO CORNER, HEADLAM STREET
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:
- 18-22 WITH ATTACHED FENCES AND GARAGES TO THE REAR, SPIRES LANE
- Statutory Address:
- 4,5 AND 6 WITH ATTACHED FENCES, GRACE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 7-21, WITH ATTACHED COMMUNITY CENTRE TO CORNER, 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 27300 64563
Details
NZ2764 GRACE STREET 1833/27/10186 BYKER 22-JAN-07 (Southwest side) 4,5 AND 6 WITH ATTACHED FENCES HEADLAM STREET BYKER (Northeast side) 7-21, WITH ATTACHED COMMUNITY CENTRE T O CORNER SPIRES LANE BYKER (Northwest side) 18-22 WITH ATTACHED FENCES AND GARAGES TO THE REAR (Formerly listed as: SPIRES LANE BYKER 18-21, WITH ATTACHED FENCES AND GARAGE S TO REAR)
GV II* 'L'-shaped terrace of houses and flats. 1974-6 by Ralph Erskine's Arkitektkontor; site architect Vernon Gracie; structural engineer, White, Young and Partners; main contractor Shepherd Construction Limited. Pale brick and brown weatherboarding, on timber frame with yellow and red eaves. Blue metal roofs with plywood box beams purlins. Two storeys with weatherboarded attic storey to corner over nos. 21 Headlam Street and nos. 21-22 Spires Lane, with projecting single-storey community room at corner of Headlam Street and Spires Lane. Carriage arch under nos. 21-22 Spires Lane. Nos. 7-17 Headlam Street and nos. 21-22 Spires Lane are flats. Distinctive yellow weatherboarded eaves to Headlam Street, with red vertical struts between first-floor windows. Brown weatherboarding to nos. 4, 5 and 6 Grace Street, which have plastic door hoods and blue doors and windows to rear. 7-19 have brown weatherboarded projecting porches with metal roofs. Community room with green weatherboarding and steep-pitched roof with broad timber entrance porch to rear; Nos. 18-20 Spires Lane with green weatherboarded fronts to projecting porches under blue metal roofs. Brown timber windows except where noted above, in timber subframes and with aluminium opening lights; red and blue doors with glazed panel, some renewed in hardwood. Attached brick garages to the rear of nos. 18-21 Spires Lane. Short spur fences between the houses and pairs of flats. This is a complex and pivotal group at the corner of the Grace Lee development.
HISTORY: See under Dunn Terrace, Nos 1-75
SOURCES: See under Dunn Terrace, Nos 1-75
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 504030
- 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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