Nos. 10-22, Including Fences, Nos. 8 And 10, Including Fences, Nos. 1-12, Including Fences

NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE

NZ2664SE BROCK STREET 1833/30/10143 Byker 22-JAN-07 (South side) Nos. 8 and 10, including fences BROCK SQUARE Byker Nos.1-12, including fences DIBLEY STREET Byker (West side) Nos. 10-22, including fences

GV II* Terraces of houses and pensioners' bungalows enclosing a square. 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, with brown weatherboarding, turquoise blue metal roofs supported on plywood box beam purlins. Two storeys, save for Nos. 10 and 11 Brock Square, which are single storey, and raised attic storey over corner entries. Nos. 4 and 5 Brock Square have blue catslide roofs over projecting porches. Nos. 12-20 Dibley Street with prominent projecting brick porches. Timber windows with aluminium opening lights; timber doors with glazed panel, some renewed in hardwood. Red-brown fencing to the rear of Nos. 10-22 is a prominent feature in the square. Interiors not inspected. 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.