Nos 1 And 2, St Lawrence Court, With Attached Fences And Seats

NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE

NZ2764NW SPIRES LANE 1833/27/10191 (off) 22-JAN-07 Nos 1 and 2, St Lawrence Court with attached fences and seats

Formerly Listed as: BYKER-GRACE LEE 1 and 2 St Lawrence Court, with attach ed fences and seats

GV II*

Pair of houses. 1974-6 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 unevenly cut green weatherboarding to rear elevations. Blue metal roofs with plywood box beam purlins. Two storeys. Projecting brown weatherboarded porches to front; plastic door hoods to rear. Vertical struts of white between first-floor windows, which are arranged as a continuous strip across the facade. Windows of timber, in timber surrounds with aluminium opening lights, mainly sliding. Glazed timber doors to no. 1; those to no. 2 renewed. No. 2 has single-storey projecting brick lean-to as part of the composition, with built-in seat. Interiors not inspected. Brown fences to front and green fences to rear an integral part of the composition, the latter with built-in semi-circular seating and table. St Lawrence Court occupies a prominent position between the perimeter wall, St Lawrence's Church and the children's play ground of Grace Lee.

HISTORY: see Nos 1-75 Dunn Terrace.

SOURCES: see Nos 1-75 Dunn Terrace.