2, 4 and 6 Brock Street, Byker Wall

HER Number

9286

District

Newcastle

Site Name

2, 4 and 6 Brock Street, Byker Wall

Place

Byker

Map Sheet

NZ26SE

Class

Domestic

Site Type: Broad

Flats

Site Type: Specific

Flats

General Period

20TH CENTURY

Specific Period

Late 20th Century 1967 to 2000

Form of Evidence

Extant Building

Description

Three flats. 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 and concrete block cross walls on concrete frame, with red-brown timber-fronted balconies. Blue metal roofs supported on plywood box beam purlins. Three storeys on concrete stilts over open ground with ramps. Stairs to side with plastic canopy. Plastic canopy to second-floor balcony. LISTED GRADE 2*

Easting

426830

Northing

564340

Grid Reference

NZ426830564340

Sources

Department of Culture Media and Sport, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 1833/30/10141; Department of Culture Media and Sport, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 498946; North East Civic Trust, 2005, A Byker Future - The Conservation Plan for The Byker Redevelopment, Newcastle upon Tyne