1-14, PRIORY GREEN (See details for further address information)

This listing describes a group of six terraces of houses and flats located at Priory Green and Norfolk Square in Byker, built between 1972 and 1975 by Ralph Erskine's Arkitektkontor, with Vernon Gracie as the site architect and White, Young and Partners as the structural engineers. The buildings feature pale metric modular brick on a timber frame, with dark green vertical cladding on numbers 2 to 9 and 11 to 14 Priory Green, and blue cladding on numbers 13 to 17 Norfolk Square. The roofs are made of pale blue pitch metal with deep eaves supported by plywood box beam purlins.

The structures are two storeys high, with numbers 2 and 4, 14 and 16 Norfolk Square, and numbers 62 and 64 Raby Street functioning as flats, although they share a similar layout with the houses. Each has projecting porches clad in dark green, with metal roofs for those on Priory Green, while numbers 1 to 9 have blue-clad projecting porches. The flats and houses on Raby Street feature projecting metal hoods over the doors. There is a projecting timber canopy that covers the entrance to Norfolk Square from Raby Street.

The windows are timber with timber surrounds, including aluminium sliding opening lights, and number 14 Norfolk Square has been renewed in uPVC. The doors are timber with glazed panels, some of which have been replaced with hardwood. Stained timber fences are set on brick walls. Although the interiors were not inspected, this group of buildings exemplifies the arrangement of semi-private courtyards that characterize much of the low-rise areas of Byker, making it an early and notable example of this architectural style.