Description

NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE

NZ2764NW HEADLAM STREET
1833/27/10178 1-39 Mount Pleasant House, and attache
22-JAN-07 d walls and fences

formerly listed as:
CARVILLE
1-39 Mount Pleasant House, and attache
d walls and fences

GV II*

Sheltered housing. 1978-80 by Ralph Erskine's Arkitektkontor; site architect Vernon Gracie; structural engineer, White, Young and Partners; main contractor Fairclough Building Limited. Pale metric modular brick cladding to concrete block work cross-wall construction, with some exposed steelwork and pre-cast cantilevers for balconies; flat roof. Two storeys. Entrance to east with full-height glazed triangular window lighting principal stair. Exposed brown steel sections to this entrance. Brown weatherboarded eaves and projecting red-brown balcony. Windows of timber in timber subframes with aluminium opening lights. Timber door. Interiors not inspected. A good example of the high provision for the elderly and disabled in the Byker redevelopment.

HISTORY: see Nos 1-75 Dunn Terrace.

SOURCES: see Nos 1-75 Dunn Terrace.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17553097

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Recommended Books

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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)