Nos. 85-105, With Attached Fences

NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE

NZ2764SW RABY STREET 1833/31/10167 Byker 22-JAN-07 (East side) 85-105 Nos. 85-105, with attached fences

GV II* Varied terrace of houses. 1979-82 by Ralph Erskine's Arkitektkontor; site architect Vernon Gracie; structural engineer, White, Young and Partners; main contractor, Stanley Miller Ltd. Pale yellow metric modular brick on concrete block construction with weatherboard cladding; Marley Modern tiled roofs. Two and three storeys. No. 85 is a house, of two storeys with brown and blue weatherboarding to first floor at window level under eaves, and projecting brown weatherboarded porch under sloping tiled roof. Nos 87-9 are three-storey houses, with green weatherboarding to first and second floor, with blue weatherboarding to eaves and projecting first-floor balconies with brown timber balustrades and planting boxes on green subframe. Blue doors. Green bird boxes at either end. Nos. 91-3 are also three storeys, but lower, with green weatherboarding, save for blue vertical strip and second-floor eaves, and a brown bird box to no. 93. Red doors and metal door hoods. Nos. 95-97 of two storeys, with brown and blue weatherboarding forming a strip between first floor windows, deep ground-floor windows painted blue. Projecting brick porches with brown weatherboarded fronts and sloping tiled roofs. Vertical brown weatherboarding to rear. No. 99 of three storeys, with green weatherboarding, save for blue weatherboarding around second-floor windows and eaves. Green timber to windows. Red door and red metal door hood. Triangular fencing to either side. High-level timber link via timber heating casing to Nos. 101-5, which are three-storey, with brown weatherboarding and windows (blue eaves), and red door hoods. Distinctive white brickwork round the door to no. 105. All windows of timber in timber surrounds with aluminium opening lights; timber doors with glazed panel, some renewed in hardwood where not specifically noted as important to the composition. This is a long and prominent group on the principal pedestrian route through the Byker estate.

HISTORY: see under Nos 1-75 Dunn Terrace.

SOURCES: see under Nos 1-75 Dunn Terrace.