Description

NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE

NZ2764SW RABY CROSS
1833/31/10149 Byker
22-JAN-07 (West side)
10-14

GV II*

Block of three flats. 1976-8 by Ralph Erskine's Arkitektkontor; site architect Vernon Gracie; structural engineer, White, Young and Partners; main contractor, Shepherd Construction. Pale metric modular brick on timber frame, with red-brown weatherboarding and dark blue timber-fronted balconies. Blue 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, with enlarged windows to first-floor living rooms. Timber doors with glazed panel, some renewed in hardwood. Interiors not inspected. This block forms a prominent terminating feature at the edge of the Bolam area of the estate.

HISTORY: see under Nos 1-75 Dunn Terrace.

SOURCES: see under Nos 1-75 Dunn Terrace.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17552941

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)