Description

NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE

NZ2764SW OBAN GARDENS
1833/31/10161 Byker
22-JAN-07 Nos. 1-23, and attached fences

COMMERCIAL ROAD
Byker
(South side)
Nos. 2-12, and attached fences

GV II*

Three terraces of houses. 1978-81 by Ralph Erskine's Arkitektkontor; site architect Vernon Gracie; structural engineer, White, Young and Partners; main contractor, Fairclough Buildings Ltd. Red brick to street frontages, buff brick to garden fronts, with blue weatherboarded eaves to Oban Gardens. Concrete Marley Modern tiled roofs. Two storeys on steeply sloping site. Timber windows in timber surrounds with aluminium opening lights; timber doors with glazed panel, some renewed in hardwood, under red, green and blue metal hoods. The houses stepped down the steep slope in threes, with bird boxes at each step. Interiors not inspected. Blue fences an integral part of the composition.

HISTORY: see under Nos 1-75 Dunn Terrace.

SOURCES: see under Nos 1-75 Dunn Terrace.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17553016

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