Fixed Seating And Tables, And Shelters No 3, With Attached Walls And Fences And Table And Seats Nos 11 To 19 (Odd), With Attached Walls And Fences Nos 12 To 18 (Even), With Attached Walls And Fences Nos 20 And 21, With Attached Walls, Fences And Pergola

The complex comprises two mirrored terraces forming a square, with two bungalows and pergolas defining the ends, built between 1976 and 1978 as part of the Byker Redevelopment Area in Newcastle upon Tyne. The design was by Ralph Erskine's Arkitektkontor, with Vernon Gracie as site architect and White, Young and Partners as structural engineers, and Shepherd Construction Limited as the main contractor. The buildings are primarily constructed from pale modular metric brick on a timber frame, with weatherboarding, and stone to numbers 20 and 21. The roofs are monopitch, clad in blue metal and supported by plywood box beam purlins. Most buildings are two storeys high, while numbers 20 and 21 are bungalows. Windows are timber-framed with aluminium opening lights. Some front doors have been renewed in hardwood.

Numbers 11-19 (odd) feature a flat front facing the square, with brick ends and blue weatherboarding to the central three units (numbers 13-17). Green metal door hoods and bird boxes at each end are also present. The rear elevation displays red eaves weatherboarding, brown weatherboarding around windows forming a first-floor strip, and blue weatherboarding to numbers 17 and 19. Numbers 12-18 and number 3 Old Vicarage Walk are plain brick to the rear but brightly coloured to the square, with bright green eaves and blue weatherboarding, except for the slightly projecting number 3 Old Vicarage Walk. Prominent green bird boxes are located at the ends of these terraces. Low walls and fences are found throughout the site. A central timber shelter in the square has a blue polygonal metal sheet roof.

Numbers 20 and 21, the bungalows at the end of the square, incorporate a remnant wall from a previous structure into their rear elevation. Three sides are of pale modular metric brick with bright green eaves, and blue doors and windows. A pergola is positioned at the front. Extending walls link the bungalows to the west with a blue fence, fixed seating and tables, and to the east with a brown shelter featuring a blue pyramidal metal roof, which are part of the overall group. An old stone wall with a brick opening bounds the square from the parkland to the north, contributing to the attractively planted setting. The scheme’s imaginative detailing, small scale, and landscape planting are remarkable qualities.

Historical and source information is available for the neighbouring buildings at Nos 1-75 Dunn Terrace.