FIXED SEATING AND TABLES, AND SHELTERS NO 3, WITH ATTACHED WALLS AND FENCES AND TABLE AND SEATS NOS 11 TO 19 (ODD), WITH ATTACHED WALLS AND FENCES NOS 12 TO 18 (EVEN), WITH ATTACHED WALLS AND FENCES NOS 20 AND 21, WITH ATTACHED WALLS, FENCES AND PERGOLA TO FRONT

FIXED SEATING AND TABLES, AND SHELTERS, BENSON PLACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1392190
Date first listed:: 22-Jan-2007
List Entry Name:: FIXED SEATING AND TABLES, AND SHELTERS NO 3, WITH ATTACHED WALLS AND FENCES AND TABLE AND SEATS NOS 11 TO 19 (ODD), WITH ATTACHED WALLS AND FENCES NOS 12 TO 18 (EVEN), WITH ATTACHED WALLS AND FENCES NOS 20 AND 21, WITH ATTACHED WALLS, FENCES AND PERGOLA TO FRONT
Statutory Address:: FIXED SEATING AND TABLES, AND SHELTERS, BENSON PLACE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1392190
Date first listed:: 22-Jan-2007
Date of most recent amendment:: 08-Jan-2010
List Entry Name:: FIXED SEATING AND TABLES, AND SHELTERS NO 3, WITH ATTACHED WALLS AND FENCES AND TABLE AND SEATS NOS 11 TO 19 (ODD), WITH ATTACHED WALLS AND FENCES NOS 12 TO 18 (EVEN), WITH ATTACHED WALLS AND FENCES NOS 20 AND 21, WITH ATTACHED WALLS, FENCES AND PERGOLA TO FRONT
Statutory Address 1:: FIXED SEATING AND TABLES, AND SHELTERS, BENSON PLACE
Statutory Address 2:: NO 3, WITH ATTACHED WALLS AND FENCES AND TABLE AND SEATS, OLD VICARAGE WALK
Statutory Address 3:: NOS 11 TO 19 (ODD), WITH ATTACHED WALLS AND FENCES, BENSON PLACE
Statutory Address 4:: NOS 12 TO 18 (EVEN), WITH ATTACHED WALLS AND FENCES, BENSON PLACE
Statutory Address 5:: NOS 20 AND 21, WITH ATTACHED WALLS, FENCES AND PERGOLA TO FRONT, BENSON PLACE

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:: FIXED SEATING AND TABLES, AND SHELTERS, BENSON PLACE
Statutory Address:: NO 3, WITH ATTACHED WALLS AND FENCES AND TABLE AND SEATS, OLD VICARAGE WALK
Statutory Address:: NOS 11 TO 19 (ODD), WITH ATTACHED WALLS AND FENCES, BENSON PLACE
Statutory Address:: NOS 12 TO 18 (EVEN), WITH ATTACHED WALLS AND FENCES, BENSON PLACE
Statutory Address:: NOS 20 AND 21, WITH ATTACHED WALLS, FENCES AND PERGOLA TO FRONT, BENSON PLACE

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 27460 64565, NZ 27466 64590, NZ 27489 64565

Details

NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE

NZ2764NW BENSON PLACE 1833/27/10201 Nos. 11 to19 (odd), Benson Place, with 22-JAN-07 attached walls and fences

BENSON PLACE Nos 12 to 18 (even), with attached walls and fences

OLD VICARAGE WALK No 3, with attached walls and fences and table and seats

BENSON PLACE Nos 20 and 21, with attached walls, fences and pergola to front

BENSON PLACE Fixed seating and tables, and shelters

Formerly listed as: BYKER-CHIRTON Nos. 11-19 (odd) Benson Place, Nos 12- 18 (even) Benson Place with No. 3 Old Vicarage Walk and Nos 20 and 21 Benson Place, attached walls, fences, seats, table, and including two shelters and pergola

GV II* Two mirrored terraces forming a square, with two bungalows and pergolas marking end. 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. Stone to Nos. 20 and 21. Blue metal monopitch roofs with plywood box beam purlins. All of two storeys, save for Nos. 20 and 21 Benson Place, which are bungalows. All windows of timber in timber subframes with aluminium opening lights. Some doors renewed in hardwood. Nos. 11-19 (odd) have flat front to square, with brick ends and blue weatherboarding to the central three units (Nos. 13-17). Green metal door hoods Bird box at each end. Rear elevation with red eaves weatherboarding, brown weatherboarding around windows forming first-floor strip, and blue weatherboarding to Nos. 17 and 19. Nos. 12-18, with no. 3 Old Vicarage Walk have plain brick backs, but are brightly coloured to square, with bright green eaves and blue weatherboarding, save to slightly projecting no. 3 Old Vicarage Walk. Prominent green bird boxes at end. Low walls at each end, and some low fences. Central timber shelter in square, of timber, with blue polygonal metal sheet roof. Nos. 20 and 21 are a pair of bungalows at end, incorporating wall from building previously on the site as rear elevation. The other three sides of pale modular metric brick, with bright green eaves over, and blue doors and windows. Pergola to front. Wall extends to either side of bungalows, linking them to west with blue fence, fixed seating and tables, and to east with brown shelter with blue pyramidal metal roof, a part of the group, as is the old stone wall with brick opening which bounds this attractively planted square from the parkland to the north. Chirton is one of the most imaginatively detailed, small scale and well-planted neighbourhoods.

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:: 499031
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.