Unit 30, Northumbrian Way

HER Number

9370

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Unit 30, Northumbrian Way

Place

Killingworth

Map Sheet

NZ27SE

Class

Commercial

Site Type: Broad

Commercial Office

Site Type: Specific

Commercial Office

General Period

20TH CENTURY

Specific Period

Mid 20th Century 1933 to 1966

Form of Evidence

Extant Building

Description

Former Ryder and Yates offices, 1964, now a computer software company office. The steel frame of this building was a reused 1962 exhibition stand for British Gypsum. The stand resembled a small two-storey building. It had a white façade, ribbon windows, a flat roof and eight slender steel columns with lattice girders spanning the roof space. The new office formed around the recycled steelwork was single-storey, rectangular and had continuous glazing along each elevation within a frame of Formica panels. Inside the conference and interview rooms were divided by clear glass. Up to 40 architects and engineers could be accommodated in this open plan space. Ryder and Yates replaced the original Formica faced plywood panels with quartz-faced concrete panels in the 1970s. Ryder, the successors to Ryder and Yates vacated the office in 2002.

Easting

427196

Northing

570801

Grid Reference

NZ427196570801

Sources

North Tyneside Council, November 2008, Register of Buildings and Parks of Special Local Architectural and Historic Interest SDP (Local Development Document 9); Rutter Carroll, 2009, Ryder and Yates - Twentieth century Architects, pp 91-3; The Journal, October 1933, 'Beautiful or Gas-tly', series of articles on proposed listing of Norgas House and Ryder and Yates offices; Daily Telegraph, 15 March 1995, 'Dorrell seeks views of modern buildings', potential listing of Norgas House and Ryder and Yates offices; The Journal, 15 March 1995, 'Sixties office blocks are building up to make the grade', potential listing of Norgas House and Ryder and Yates offices; Financial Times, 20 March 1995, 'A chance to choose', potential listing of Norgas House and Ryder and Yates offices; Carroll, Rutter, 2012, Ryder (RIBA Publishing); English Heritage, 2014, Listing Advice Report; Andy Doidge, DCMS, 21 January 2016, letter to North Tyneside Council re removal of building from List