Description

NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE

NZ2664SE BROCK STREET
1833/30/10144 Byker
22-JAN-07 12-18

DIBLEY STREET
Byker
29-37

BRINKBURN SQUARE
Byker
1-9

GV II*

Terraces of houses and pensioners' bungalows enclosing a square. 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 on timber frame, with dark green weatherboarding to Nos. 2 and 7 Brinkburn Square. Blue metal roofs supported on plywood box beam purlins. Nos. 3 and 4 Brinkburn Square are single storey, the others two storeys. Nos. 1, 2 and 9 with plastic door hoods Nos. 5-8 with projecting porches of green weatherboarding under blue catslide roofs. Nos. 12-18 Brock Street have yellow weatherboarding to rear eaves, a rare use of this colour, with green, white and red below and raised attics at either end of terrace. Timber windows with aluminium opening lights; timber doors with glazed panel, some renewed in hardwood. Interiors not inspected but not thought to be of special interest. The group forms a square, the distinctive idiom of the Gordon Road neighbourhood.

HISTORY: see under Nos 1-75 Dunn Terrace.

SOURCES: see under Nos 1-75 Dunn Terrace.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17552852

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Recommended Books

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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)