Description

NZ2664NE PRIORY GREEN
1833/26/10127 BYKER
22-JAN-07 1-14
RABY STREET
BYKER
(West side)
56-64
NORFOLK SQUARE
BYKER
1-19

(Formerly listed as
including:
NORFOLK SQUARE
BYKER
1-18)

GV II*
Six terraces of houses and flats. 1972-5 by Ralph Erskine's Arkitektkontor; site architect Vernon Gracie; structural engineer, White, Young and Partners; main contractor, Stanley Miller Ltd. Pale metric modular brick on timber frame, with dark green vertical cladding to nos.2-9, 11-14 Priory Green, and in blue to Nos. 13-17 Norfolk Square. Pale blue contrasting pitch metal roofs with deep eaves supported on plywood box beam purlins. Two storeys. Nos. 2 and 4, 14 and 16 Norfolk Square, and nos. 62 and 64 Raby Street are flats, though occupying similar plan to the houses. Projecting porches, also with dark green cladding and those to Priory Green with metal roofs. Nos. 1-9 with blue-clad projecting porches. The flats and houses on Raby Street with projecting metal hoods to doors. Projecting timber canopy covering entrance to Norfolk Square from Raby Street. Timber windows in timber surrounds, with aluminium sliding opening lights, no. 14 Norfolk Square renewed in upvc. Timber doors with glazed panels, some renewed in hardwood. Stained timber fences on brick walls. Interiors not Inspected.

This little group epitomises the arrangement of semi-private courtyards of which much of the low-rise parts of Byker are comprised, and this is an early and good example.

HISTORY: See under 1-75 Dunn Terrace

SOURCES: See under 1-75 Dunn Terrace

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17552737

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Recommended Books

• 
  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets