Description

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.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17552967

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Recommended Books

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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)