Description

NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE

NZ2764SW RUDDOCK SQUARE
1833/31/10155 Byker
22-JAN-07 1-18
with attached garden fences

GV II*


Square formed of four terraces of houses and some flats. 1976-8 by Ralph Erskine's Arkitektkontor; site architect Vernon Gracie; structural engineer, White, Young and Partners; main contractor, Shepherd Construction. Buff metric modular brick on timber frame, with red and orange brick to corner blocks and to Bolam Way. Monopitch metal roofs supported on plywood box beam purlins. Two storeys. All houses save for Nos. 4 and 5, which form a prominent corner to Raby Street, denoted by projecting first-floor timber oriel and orange brick end wall. Bird boxes to Nos. 3 and 4, and projecting dark timber porches. Courtyard elevations have brown weatherboarding, projecting porches to Nos. 9 and 12. The other houses with metal door hoods. Timber windows in timber surrounding with aluminium opening lights, mainly sliding; timber doors with glazed panel, many renewed in hardwood. Nos. 1-4 have raised gardens on brick walls, as have rear of Nos. 5 and 6, with timber pergola. Nos. 7-14 have projecting brick and blue weatherboarded porches to Bolam Way, under green metal roofs and with red doors. Nos. 14-18 continue the perimeter line formed by Cushat Close and Merle Gardens, with to Bolam Way red brick, dark weatherboarded eaves defined by red vertical bands, and end bird box to no. 15. Carriageway arch formed by timber heating pipe casing links Nos. 15 and 14. Similar link by means of timber casing links Nos. 18 and 1. Ruddock Square forms the south-west corner of the Byker development.

HISTORY: see under Nos 1-75 Dunn Terrace.

SOURCES: see under Nos 1-75 Dunn Terrace.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17552982

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Recommended Books

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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)