No. 1-17, With Kerbs to Front and Attached Fences
NO.1 -17, WITH KERBS TO FRONT AND ATTACHED FENCES, SPIRES LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1392177
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jan-2007
- List Entry Name:
- No. 1-17, With Kerbs to Front and Attached Fences
- Statutory Address:
- NO.1 -17, WITH KERBS TO FRONT AND ATTACHED FENCES, SPIRES LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1392177
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jan-2007
- List Entry Name:
- No. 1-17, With Kerbs to Front and Attached Fences
- Statutory Address 1:
- NO.1 -17, WITH KERBS TO FRONT AND ATTACHED FENCES, SPIRES LANE
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:
- NO.1 -17, WITH KERBS TO FRONT AND ATTACHED FENCES, SPIRES LANE
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 27374 64629
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 18/07/2012
NZ2764NW
1580/27/10001
22-JAN-07
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
SPIRES LANE
Byker
(East side)
No.1 -17, with kerbs to front and attached fences
GV
II*
Terrace of seventeen 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 green weatherboarding on timber frames, with some brown weatherboarding, under shallow double-pitched metal roofs with plywood box beam purlins and projecting eaves to garden elevations. Two storeys, with carriageway under no. 10, which has raised attic over this part. Nos. 2, 3, 5 and 16 weatherboarded in brown, with all save no. 5 weatherboarded over first floor only. Nos. 4, 7, 13, 15 and 17 with full-height green weatherboarding. Fronts with red metal door hoods and some red and blue doors with glazed panels, others renewed in hardwood. Windows of timber in timber subframes with aluminium opening lights, mainly sliding, Nos. 3, 6 and 10 renewed. Interiors not inspected. Granite kerbs to front from streets previously on the site; brown fences between houses and to rear. This and Winship Terrace (qv) line the principal thoroughfare through Grace Lee.
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:
- 499018
- 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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