Description

NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE

NZ2664SE THE CHEVRON
1833/30/10137 Byker
22-JAN-07 1-14 The Chevron with attached
meeting hall and garages

Formerly Listed as: GORDON ROAD
Byker - Gordon Road
(South side)
1-14 The Chevron with attached meetin
g hall and garages

GV II*

Block of flats. 1974-6 by Ralph Erskine's Arkitektkontor; site architect Vernon Gracie; structural engineer, White, Young and Partners; main contractor, Shepherd Construction. Pale metric modular brick, with internal block work frame, and green timber balconies. Long sloping blue metal roofs supported on plywood box beam purlins. Two-four storeys on `L'-shaped plan. Timber windows with aluminium opening lights and red doors. Attached porch and garages to meeting hall. Interiors not inspected. The Chevron is a prominent feature, and marks the boundary between the Kendal Street and Gordon Road parts of the Byker estate.

HISTORY: see under Nos 1-75 Dunn Terrace.

SOURCES: see under Nos 1-75 Dunn Terrace.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17552788

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)