1-20 The Brow With Attached Fences And Bin Stores

NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE

NZ2764SW ST PETER'S ROAD 1833/31/10156 Byker 22-JAN-07 (West side) 1-20 The Brow with attached fences and bin stores

GV II* Block of flats and houses. 1978-81 by Ralph Erskine's Arkitektkontor; site architect Vernon Gracie; structural engineer, White, Young and Partners; main contractor, Fairclough Buildings Ltd. Red and buff brick metric modular brick cladding to concrete block internal cross-wall construction, with bright green and blue weatherboarding and near-white Eternit panels. Monopitch concrete tile roofs of Marley Modern tiles. One, two and three storeys. The north face largely of red brick, those to west and south with high bright-green weatherboarded eaves above first floor. Red-brown and blue timber balconies to flats (Nos.9-16), with two-storey balconies to central range (Nos. 9-14). Inner courtyard mainly faced in Eternit, with two sets of timber steps to flats. Bird box on the side of no. 19. Windows of timber in timber surrounds with aluminium opening lights (mainly sliding); timber doors with glazed panel, some renewed in hardwood. Blue fences and bin stores an integral part of the courtyard composition. Interiors not inspected. The Brow is the balancing block to Bolam Coyne at the eastern edge of Ayton Park. Its style reflects the change in the use of materials and colours between the building of the Bolam and Ayton neighbourhoods.

HISTORY: see Nos 1-75 Dunn Terrace.

SOURCES: see Nos 1-75 Dunn Terrace.