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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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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Official list entry

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

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:: 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 HEADLAM STREET BYKER (Northeast side) 7-21, O CORNER SPIRES LANE BYKER (Northwest side) 18-22 TO THE REAR (Formerly listed as: SPIRES LANE BYKER 18-21, S TO REAR) 'L'-shaped terrace of houses and flats. 1974-6 AND 6 WITH ATTACHED FENCES WITH ATTACHED COMMUNITY CENTRE T WITH ATTACHED FENCES AND GARAGES WITH ATTACHED FENCES AND GARAGE

GV II* 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 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.