15 and 17 Brock Street, Byker Wall

Includes Nos. 1-27 with attached garden fences and retaining brick walls and pergola, Dibley Street. L-shaped terrace of houses, flats and pensioners bungalows. 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 on timber frame, turquoise blue metal roofs supported on plywood box beam purlins. Two storeys apart from Nos. 15 and 17 which are bungalows. No. 5 set back, with brown weatherboarding. Windows to first floor of Nos. 5-13 and 19-27 in long strips in bright green timber surrounds under deep eaves. Nos. 5-27 have projecting porches with vertical green timber cladding. Gardens entered up steps between brick retaining walls, which extend to a decorative curved planter in front of No. 5. LISTED GRADE 2*