Nos 30-40 (Even), With Retaining Walls And Fences

NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE

NZ2764SW CHIRTON WYND 1833/31/10196 (Northeast side) 22-JAN-07 Nos 30-40 (even), with retaini ng walls and fences

Formerly listed as: BYKER-CHIRTON (Northeast side) 30-40 (even) Chirton Wynd with retaini ng walls and fences

GV II* Terrace of four houses, and pair of houses. 1976-78 by Ralph Erskine's Arkitektkontor; site architect Vernon Gracie; structural engineer, White, Young and Partners; main contractor Shepherd Construction Limited. Pale modular metric brick on timber frame, with weatherboarding. Blue metal monopitch roofs with plywood box beam purlins. Nos. 30-36 of two storeys, Nos. 38 and 40 of three. Nos. 30-36 set above pedestrian street (Chirton Wynd), behind orange metric modular brick wall. Bird boxes to each end. Bright green eaves, brown weatherboarding between first-floor strip windows, and soft green to rest. Yellow metal door hoods to Nos. 32 and 34, green hood to no. 36 set on side. Rear with brown weatherboarding to no. 30, with green weatherboarding to eaves of Nos. 34 and 36. Nos. 38 and 40 with weatherboarding to front over first floor, and some brown weatherboarding between the first-floor strip windows, which are larger where they serve first-floor living rooms. Rear with brown weatherboarding to second floor of no. 38. Bird boxes each end, no. 40 also with projecting single-storey outshut under sloping roof. Green metal hoods to doors. All windows of timber in timber subframes and with aluminium opening lights, mainly sliding, that to ground floor of no. 30 renewed, and hardwood doors. Interiors not inspected. Stone walls retained from original housing on site forms front wall to no. 40; orange brick retaining wall to rear. Orange walls and brown fences to rear of Nos. 30-36. The terraces form a prominent group on the main route through the Chirton area, leading to and from Headlam Green.

HISTORY: see Nos 1-75 Dunn Terrace.

SOURCES: see Nos 1-75 Dunn Terrace.