Description

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.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17552710

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)