Tom Collins House

NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE

NZ 2664 SE DUNN TERRACE 498928 Nos 76-128 Tom Collins House Formerly Listed as:

NZ2664SE DUNN TERRACE 1833/30/10122 Byker - Dunn Terrace 22-JAN-07 76-128 Tom Collins House CONYERS ROAD Byker - Dunn Terrace Tom Collins House DUNN TERRACE Byker - Dunn Terrace Tom Collins House

GV II* Block of sheltered housing comprising 52 flats. 1976-78 for the City of Newcastle upon Tyne by Ralph Erskine's Arkitektkontor; site architect Vernon Gracie; structural engineer, White, Young and Partners; main contractor, Shepherds Construction Ltd. In situ concrete frame clad in strong brown, orange and buff patterned metric modular bricks to entrance and to lift shaft, with paler colours to east, and white Eternit cladding to south-west face. Wedge-shaped plan, with sharply stepped profile of four-thirteen storeys, forming terminating feature to Dunn Terrace. Gallery access to lower four storeys, reached from separate entrance to that leading to flats 89-128, which are entered up covered steps on south-east corner. Aluminium windows, those in lower four storeys set in timber frames, the rest top-hung casements. Red-brown timber balconies to flats 89-128. Brown and red-brown balustrading to the gallery serving the lower flats. Large bay windows to common rooms facing south and south-west on lower floors. Tom Collins House is the terminating feature of Dunn Terrace, and one of the most prominent elements of the Byker Estate. 'Tom Collins House rises out of the development "as a recognition point both within Byker and in the relationship of Byker to the centre of the city"', quoted by Malpass.

HISTORY: see under Nos 1-75 Dunn Terrace.

SOURCES: see under Nos 1-75 Dunn Terrace.