Nos. 39-79, With Attached Bin Stores And Sheds, And Walls And Fences To Rear

NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE

NZ2764NW RABY STREET 1833/27/10165 Byker 22-JAN-07 (East side) 39-79 Nos. 39-79, with attached bin stores a nd sheds, and walls and fences to rear

GV II*

Long terrace of houses and flats. 1978-9 by Ralph Erskine's Arkitektkontor; site architect Vernon Gracie; structural engineer, White, Young and Partners; main contractor, Shepherd Construction. Pale brick metric modular brick construction on timber frame, partly clad in weatherboarding, low-pitched metal roofs on plywood box beam purlins. Flats set over open ground floors (so-called stilt blocks) of concrete block work construction on in situ ground-floor concrete frame, clad in metric modular brickwork and brown weatherboarding, blue metal roofs. Two and three storeys. Nos. 39-47 Raby street of three storeys with blue balconies, blue weatherboarding to first floor, white weatherboarding above second-floor strip windows. Very prominent projecting integral bin stores and sheds joined to house by timber catslide roofs of blue timber with battening. Rear has green windows and green weatherboarding. Nos. 49-53 are stilt block flats, entered off gallery reached via stairs to left, with brown balconies. Nos. 53-65 and Nos. 73-9 repeat the distinctive format of Nos. 39-47 Raby Street, while Nos. 67-71 repeat Nos. 49-53. Timber windows in timber surrounds with aluminium opening lights, mainly sliding; timber doors with glazed panel, some renewed in hardwood.

HISTORY: see under Nos 1-75 Dunn Terrace

SOURCES: see under Nos 1-75 Dunn Terrace.