Fenham, Fenham Hall Drive, Children's Clinic

HER Number:
15127

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Fenham, Fenham Hall Drive, Children's Clinic

Place:
Fenham

Map Sheet:
NZ26NW

Class:
Health and Welfare

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Clinic

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
During the 1960s Ryder and Yates produced a series of buildings for healthcare and welfare. Their first welfare commission came from the Newcastle Area Health Authority, with two baby clinics in Newcastle in 1960. The Fenham clinic was located within a large housing estate. The building had medical facilities at ground level and two flats for midwives or policemen above. There was a large central waiting area with consulting rooms, examination and therapy areas and toilets positioned around it. There were minimum circulation areas and corridors. The building was flat roofed, built of brick, with a glazed façade and a band of glazing separating the two floors. Circular white columns carried the first floor. At the rear of the ground floor there was decked private balcony. The main entrance was marked by a parabolic (curved) concrete barrel-vaulted canopy. The clinic has been remodelled with the addition of a pitched roof and new windows.

Easting:
2173

Northing:
6558

Grid Reference:
NZ21736558

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Rutter Carroll, 2009, Ryder and Yates - Twentieth Century Architects, p 107