1,2 AND 3, WITH ATTACHED WALLS AND FENCES, AND ELECTRIC SUBSTATION TO REAR OF NO. 1 1-6, WITH ATTACHED WALLS AND FENCES

1,2 AND 3, WITH ATTACHED WALLS AND FENCES, AND ELECTRIC SUBSTATION TO REAR OF NO. 1, HEADLAM GARDEN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1392175
Date first listed:: 22-Jan-2007
List Entry Name:: 1,2 AND 3, WITH ATTACHED WALLS AND FENCES, AND ELECTRIC SUBSTATION TO REAR OF NO. 1 1-6, WITH ATTACHED WALLS AND FENCES
Statutory Address:: 1,2 AND 3, WITH ATTACHED WALLS AND FENCES, AND ELECTRIC SUBSTATION TO REAR OF NO. 1, HEADLAM GARDEN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1392175
Date first listed:: 22-Jan-2007
List Entry Name:: 1,2 AND 3, WITH ATTACHED WALLS AND FENCES, AND ELECTRIC SUBSTATION TO REAR OF NO. 1 1-6, WITH ATTACHED WALLS AND FENCES
Statutory Address 1:: 1,2 AND 3, WITH ATTACHED WALLS AND FENCES, AND ELECTRIC SUBSTATION TO REAR OF NO. 1, HEADLAM GARDEN
Statutory Address 2:: 1-6, WITH ATTACHED WALLS AND FENCES, FELTON GREEN

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:: 1,2 AND 3, WITH ATTACHED WALLS AND FENCES, AND ELECTRIC SUBSTATION TO REAR OF NO. 1, HEADLAM GARDEN
Statutory Address:: 1-6, WITH ATTACHED WALLS AND FENCES, FELTON GREEN

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 27281 64632, NZ 27295 64613, NZ 27298 64596, NZ 27305 64633

Details

NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE

NZ2764NW HEADLAM GARDEN 1833/27/10187 Byker 22-JAN-07 1,2 and 3, with attached walls and fen ces, and electric substation to rear o f No. 1 FELTON GREEN Byker 1-6, with attached walls and fences

GV II*

Three short terraces, each of three houses. 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 uneven brown weatherboarding on timber frames, with yellow weatherboarded eaves, under shallow double-pitched metal roofs with plywood box beam purlins and projecting eaves to garden elevations. Two storeys, Nos 1 Headlam Garden and 1 and 4 Felton Green slightly higher, the others have the brown weatherboarding. Prominent projecting down pipes from the eaves. All windows of timber with timber subframes and aluminium opening lights (mainly sliding), save for Nos. 2 and 5 Felton Green which have been renewed in uPVC. Nos. 1-3 Headlam Garden with plastic door hoods and red doors. The Felton Green houses have distinctive yellow eaves with white vertical struts between the first-floor windows. Plastic door hoods and seats in front. Retaining wall to side of no. 1 Headlam Garden and brown fences are a feature of the group. Nos. 1-3 Headlam Garden and Nos. 1-3 Felton Green enclose a small courtyard. The uneven strips of the weatherboarding is a distinctive feature of Grace Lee, one of the most attractive of the Byker neighbourhoods.

HISTORY: see Nos 1-75 Dunn Terrace.

SOURCES: see Nos 1-75 Dunn Terrace.

Listing NGR: NZ2730064620

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 499016
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.