Nos. 85-105, With Attached Fences

This is a varied terrace of houses constructed between 1979 and 1982 as part of the Byker estate redevelopment in Newcastle upon Tyne. The design was by Ralph Erskine’s Arkitektkontor, with Vernon Gracie as site architect, White, Young and Partners as structural engineers, and Stanley Miller Ltd as the main contractor. The buildings are constructed using pale yellow metric modular brick on concrete block, with weatherboard cladding and Marley Modern tiled roofs.

The terrace includes houses of two and three storeys, exhibiting a range of finishes. No. 85 is a two-storey house with brown and blue weatherboarding to the first-floor window level under the eaves, and a projecting brown weatherboarded porch with a sloping tiled roof. Numbers 87-9 are three-storey houses, featuring green weatherboarding to the first and second floors, with blue weatherboarding to the eaves and projecting first-floor balconies featuring brown timber balustrades and planting boxes on a green subframe. Numbers 91-3 are also three-storey, but lower in height, with green weatherboarding, accentuated by a blue vertical strip and blue second-floor eaves, and a brown bird box to no. 93. Numbers 95-97 are two storeys, with brown and blue weatherboarding forming a strip between the first-floor windows, deep ground-floor windows painted blue, and projecting brick porches with brown weatherboarded fronts and sloping tiled roofs. No. 99 is three storeys, with green weatherboarding, save for blue weatherboarding around the second-floor windows and eaves, green timber window frames, a red door, and a red metal door hood. The rear of the buildings features vertical brown weatherboarding. Numbers 101-5 are three-storey, with brown weatherboarding, blue eaves, and red door hoods, connected by a high-level timber link via timber heating casing. Distinctive white brickwork is present around the door to no. 105.

The windows are timber framed with timber surrounds and aluminium opening lights; the doors are timber with glazed panels, some of which have been renewed in hardwood. There are green bird boxes at either end of the terrace, and distinctive triangular fencing to either side. The group is located on the principal pedestrian route through the Byker estate and is highly prominent.

The historical and source information is documented under Nos 1-75 Dunn Terrace.