Nos 2-28 (EVEN), INCLUDING SHOP, PERGOLA AND FENCES

Nos 2-28 (EVEN), INCLUDING SHOP, PERGOLA AND FENCES, CHIRTON WYND

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1392185
Date first listed:: 22-Jan-2007
List Entry Name:: Nos 2-28 (EVEN), INCLUDING SHOP, PERGOLA AND FENCES
Statutory Address:: Nos 2-28 (EVEN), INCLUDING SHOP, PERGOLA AND FENCES, CHIRTON WYND

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1392185
Date first listed:: 22-Jan-2007
Date of most recent amendment:: 08-Jan-2010
List Entry Name:: Nos 2-28 (EVEN), INCLUDING SHOP, PERGOLA AND FENCES
Statutory Address 1:: Nos 2-28 (EVEN), INCLUDING SHOP, PERGOLA AND FENCES, CHIRTON WYND

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: Nos 2-28 (EVEN), INCLUDING SHOP, PERGOLA AND FENCES, CHIRTON WYND

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 27459 64484, NZ 27502 64503

Details

NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE

NZ2764SW CHIRTON WYND 1833/31/10204 Byker 22-JAN-07 (North side) 2-28 (even), including shop, perg ola and fences

Formerly listed as: CHIRTON WYND Byker -Chirton (North side) 2-28 Chirton Wynd including shop, perg ola and fences

GV II* Two short terraces of thirteen houses and shop. 1976-78 by Ralph Erskine's Arkitektkontor; site architect Vernon Gracie; structural engineer, White, Young and Partners; main contractor Shepherd Construction Limited. Pale modular metric brick on timber frame, with weatherboarding. Blue metal monopitch roofs with plywood box beam purlins. Two storeys, save for no. 2, which is single-storey shop closed in December 1999- January 2000. Nos. 4 and 6 are set back, with pergola to no.4, carriage arch and curved garden wall to rear. Nos. 4-14 are stepped, save for Nos. 10 and 12, and all have bright green eaves, save for no. 12, which has a soft blue; green weatherboarding below first-floor strip windows, where no. 14 has brown band, save for no. 12 which is brown. Yellow metal door hoods to Nos. 8-14, the latter on side elevation, with bird box. Nos. 4 and 6 have red metal hoods to rear, and blue doors. No. 4 has green weatherboarding to rear (car parking area), while Nos. 10-14 have green eaves. Nos. 16-28 set behind orange retaining walls to pedestrian route (Chirton Wynd) to front, and to car parking area to rear. Stepped terrace, with 16 and 18, and 24 and 26 forming pairs. Pedestrian front has bright green weatherboarded eaves, some brown weatherboarding (notably to no. 16) between first-floor stripped windows, and softer green below. Red metal door hoods to Nos. 20-28, that to latter set on side, behind corner bird box. Bird box also to no. 16, with built-in seat to retaining wall to side. Attached fences between each unit with prominent triangular tops. Rear elevation plain, with brown and green weatherboarded eaves to Nos. 18, 10, 24 and 26. All windows of timber in timber subframes, with aluminium opening lights, save to no. 28, where ground floor renewed in uPVC. Prominent Porte cochere of red timber with plastic sheeted roof forms part of group with rear retaining wall. The terraces form a prominent group on the main route through the Chirton area, leading to and from Headlam Green.

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:: 499091
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.