1 - 17 Brinkburn Street, Byker Wall

Terrace of houses. Includes attached fences and kerbs. 1975-78 for City of Newcastle upon Tyne by Ralph Erskine's Arkitektkontor;, site architect Vernon Gracie; strictural engineer, White, Young and Partners; main contractor, Stanley Miller Ltd. Pale metric modular brick on timber frame with pale blue and white timber cladding to most upper storeys, and dark blue timber cladding on balconies over carriageway between Nos. 3 and 4 and to Nos. 4-6. Dark blue and green vertical cladding to lower storeys of Nos. 7-9, blue green and brown cladding to the lower portions of Nos. 11-15. Bright green cladding above upper windows of Nos. 13 and 14 with white to No. 15. Pale blue metal roofs with deep eaves supported on plywood box beam purlins. The brick houses (Nos. 1-3 and 10) are three storeys, the others are two. Stained timber fences on granite kerbs. LISTED GRADE 2*