Nos. 1-27, With Attached Garden Fences And Retaining Brick Walls And Pergola Nos. 15 And 17, With Attached Garden Fences And Retaining Brick Walls And Pergola

NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE

NZ2664SE DIBLEY STREET 1833/30/10142 Byker - Gordon Road 22-JAN-07 Nos. 1-27, with attached garden fences and retaining brick walls and pergola BROCK STREET Byker - Gordon Road Nos. 15 and 17, with attached garden f ences and retaining brick walls and pe rgola

GV II* `L'-shaped terrace of houses, flats and pensioners' bungalows. 1974-6 by Ralph Erskine's Arkitektkontor; site architect Vernon Gracie; structural engineer, White, Young and Partners; main contractor, Shepherd Construction. Pale metric modular brick on timber frame, turquoise blue metal roofs supported on plywood box beam purlins. Two storeys, save for Nos. 15 and 17, which are the bungalows. Timber windows with aluminium opening lights. No. 5 set back down entry, with high brown weatherboarding over; a similar feature to no.1. Windows to first floor of Nos. 5-13, 19-27 in long strips in bright green timber surrounds under deep eaves. Timber doors with glazed panel, some renewed in hardwood, those to 5-27 set in projecting porches with vertical green timber cladding. Gardens entered up steps between retaining brick walls, which extends to a decorative curved planter in front of no. 5. Interiors not inspected. Central pergola at the corner of Dibley Street and Brock Street is an integral part of the composition. The group forms a square, the distinctive idiom of the Gordon Road neighbourhood.

HISTORY: see under Nos 1-75 Dunn Terrace.

SOURCES: see under Nos 1-75 Dunn Terrace.