1-15 with Attached Garden Fences is a Grade II* listed building in the Newcastle upon Tyne local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 January 2007. A Late 20th century Flats and houses.
1-15 with Attached Garden Fences
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-mullion-fog
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Constituency
- Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend MP: Mary Glindon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 January 2007
- Type
- Flats and houses
- Period
- Late 20th century
- Address
- 1-15 with Attached Garden Fences, Laverock Court
- OS grid reference
- NZ 271 641
- Coordinates
- 54.97145, -1.57781
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
1-15 with attached garden fences is a group of three-sided flats and houses built between 1976 and 1978 by Ralph Erskine's Arkitektkontor, with site architect Vernon Gracie and structural engineer White, Young and Partners. The buildings are constructed from red and buff metric modular brick on a timber frame, featuring dark blue and red weatherboarding. They have blue metal monopitch roofs supported by plywood box beam purlins.
Numbers 1 and 2 are flats, as are numbers 3 and 4, and the buildings are two storeys high. Numbers 1 and 2, and 3 and 4, are separated by a timber arch and include a dark blue bird box on the end. Number 8 also features a bird box. Numbers 9 to 15 display distinctive dark blue weatherboarding on the front, with green metal door hoods and original red doors for numbers 9 and 10. Some houses have prominent brick porches under sloping metal roofs. The timber windows include aluminium opening lights. A notable feature is the blue fences at the rear of numbers 9 to 15.
The use of stronger colours is a distinctive aspect of the Bolam area, where Erskine aimed to reflect the character of the surrounding wall area in this unusually flat section of the estate. The interiors have not been inspected.
Local climate
1-15 with Attached Garden Fences receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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