1-8 And Attached Fences

NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE

NZ2764SW CUSHAT CLOSE 1833/31/10153 Byker 22-JAN-07 1-8 and attached fences

GV II*

Terrace of eight houses. 1976-8 by Ralph Erskine's Arkitektkontor; site architect Vernon Gracie; structural engineer, White, Young and Partners; main contractor, Shepherd Construction. Red and buff metric modular brick on timber frame, with red brick to perimeter road, and buff to inner face overlooking Bolam Coyne (qv). Dark blue over cladding above first floor to Bolam Way elevation, with red verticals between the strip of first-floor windows. Monopitch metal roofs supported on plywood box beam purlins. Two storeys. No. 1 set separate to the rest, separated by carriageway with timber link and bird box. Nos. 2 and 3 with projecting porches under sloping metal roofs, the ends boarded in blue weatherboarding. Dark blue bird box to end wall of no. 8. Timber windows in timber surrounding with aluminium opening lights, mainly sliding; timber doors with glazed panel, many renewed in hardwood. Blue fences to Nos. 1-8 along Bolam Way an integral part of the composition. Cushat Close forms the perimeter wall between car and pedestrian spaces, and demonstrates the stronger palette of rich colours used in the Bolam neighbourhood.

HISTORY: see under Nos 1-75 Dunn Terrace.

SOURCES: see under Nos 1-75 Dunn Terrace.