Description

NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE

NZ2664SE BRINKBURN CLOSE
1833/30/10134 Byker
22-JAN-07 1,2 AND 3
and attached ramps

GV II*

Three 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 and concrete block work on concrete frame, with green and red timber-fronted balconies. Metal roofs supported on plywood box beam purlins Three storeys on concrete stilts over open ground floor with ramps. Stairs to side with plastic canopy, and with plastic canopy to second-floor balcony. Timber windows with aluminium opening lights. Timber doors with glazed panel, some renewed in hardwood. Interiors not inspected. Forms a prominent group in the centre of Kendal Street, the focus of the earliest part of the low-rise housing.

HISTORY: see under Nos 1-75 Dunn Terrace.

SOURCES: see under Nos 1-75 Dunn Terrace.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17552771

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