1-20, With Car Porch And Attached Timber Fences

NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE

NZ 2764SW MERLE GARDENS 1833/31/10154 1-20, with car porch to Bolam Way 22-JAN-07 and attached timber fences

Formerly listed as RABY STREET Byker - Bolam Street (West side) 1-20 Merle Gardens, with car porch to Bolam Way and attached timber fences BOLAM WAY Byker - Bolam Street (West side) 1-20 Merle Gardens, with car porch and attached timber fences

GV II* Square formed of four terraces and some flats. 1976-8 by Ralph Erskine's Arkitektkontor; site architect Vernon Gracie; structural engineer, White, Young and Partners; main contractor, Shepherd Construction. Buff metric modular brick on timber frame, with red brick to corner blocks and to Bolam Way. Dark blue and red weatherboarding to inner area overlooking square. Outer faces with dark blue weatherboarded eaves. Monopitch metal roofs supported on plywood box beam purlins. Two storeys, mainly houses but with flats overlooking Raby Street. Projecting brick porches under sloping metal roofs to Nos. 1-3. Brick carriageway opening between Nos. 4 and 5. No. 6 with projecting timber and brick porch, and projecting timber oriel to upper flat. Nos 8 and 9 have bird boxes; Nos. 9 and 10 are single storey. Timber windows in timber surrounding with aluminium opening lights, mainly sliding; timber doors with glazed panel, many renewed in hardwood. Inner courtyard has raised brick wall, fences and pergolas, particularly to rear of Nos. 1-4. Nos. 14-20 have red brick to elevations overlooking Bolam Way, and form a continuation of Cushat Close (qv), with red and blue eaves weatherboarding and large projecting timber car porch. Carriageway linked by timber-clad heating pipes between Nos. 13 and 14.

HISTORY: see under Nos 1-75 Dunn Terrace.

SOURCES: see under Nos 1-75 Dunn Terrace.