Description

NZ2764 GRACE STREET
1833/27/10186 BYKER
22-JAN-07 (Southwest side)
4,5 AND 6 WITH ATTACHED FENCES
HEADLAM STREET
BYKER
(Northeast side)
7-21, WITH ATTACHED COMMUNITY CENTRE T
O CORNER
SPIRES LANE
BYKER
(Northwest side)
18-22 WITH ATTACHED FENCES AND GARAGES
TO THE REAR

(Formerly listed as:
SPIRES LANE
BYKER
18-21, WITH ATTACHED FENCES AND GARAGE
S TO REAR)

GV II*
'L'-shaped terrace of houses and flats. 1974-6 by Ralph Erskine's Arkitektkontor; site architect Vernon Gracie; structural engineer, White, Young and Partners; main contractor Shepherd Construction Limited. Pale brick and brown weatherboarding, on timber frame with yellow and red eaves. Blue metal roofs with plywood box beams purlins. Two storeys with weatherboarded attic storey to corner over nos. 21 Headlam Street and nos. 21-22 Spires Lane, with projecting single-storey community room at corner of Headlam Street and Spires Lane. Carriage arch under nos. 21-22 Spires Lane. Nos. 7-17 Headlam Street and nos. 21-22 Spires Lane are flats. Distinctive yellow weatherboarded eaves to Headlam Street, with red vertical struts between first-floor windows. Brown weatherboarding to nos. 4, 5 and 6 Grace Street, which have plastic door hoods and blue doors and windows to rear. 7-19 have brown weatherboarded projecting porches with metal roofs. Community room with green weatherboarding and steep-pitched roof with broad timber entrance porch to rear; Nos. 18-20 Spires Lane with green weatherboarded fronts to projecting porches under blue metal roofs. Brown timber windows except where noted above, in timber subframes and with aluminium opening lights; red and blue doors with glazed panel, some renewed in hardwood. Attached brick garages to the rear of nos. 18-21 Spires Lane. Short spur fences between the houses and pairs of flats. This is a complex and pivotal group at the corner of the Grace Lee development.

HISTORY: See under Dunn Terrace, Nos 1-75

SOURCES: See under Dunn Terrace, Nos 1-75

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17553132

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