56 - 64 Raby Street, Byker Wall

Six terraces of houses and flats. Includes Nos. 1-14 Priory Green and Nos. 1-18 Norfolk Square. 1972-75 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 dark green vertical cladding to Nos. 2-9, 11-14 Priory Green, and in blue to Nos. 13-17 Norfolk Square. Pale blue pitch metal roofs with deep eaves supported on plywood box beam purlins. Two storeys. Projecting porches or metal hoods to doors. Stained timber fences on brick walls. This little group epitomises the arrangement of semi-private courtyards of which much of the low-rise parts of Byker are comprised, and this is an early good example. LISTED GRADE 2*