Cheviot View: Classic Ribbon Development
Cheviot View is on the western side of the main Newcastle road into Ponteland and is a classic Ribbon Development.
Cheviot View — audio guide
As motor car ownership and the demand for private houses grew in the inter-War period in the UK, local landowners would shave a strip of land bordering a main road into a town or village, sub-divide it into building plots and offer it to local builders. These plots were popular as they offered the privacy and space of a house outside of the town or village centre, but with a car, easy access to the workplace, shops and the other facilities necessary for a comfortable life. These houses were often of a type. They were most often detached or semi-detached, usually bungalows, fronted with a small front garden facing the road and provided with a larger back garden overlooking the fields which lay behind them.
The ones in Cheviot View conform to this model. The first reference to the street in local newspapers is in 1932 when there was a request for more street lamps to be provided between Cheviot View and the village. An aerial photograph dating from 1947 shows the street almost complete apart from a small unoccupied gap near its centre.
The houses generally become larger and more ornate the closer one is to the village. Starting at the roundabout, they are the typical 1930’s bungalows. Half-way up the road they are classic 1930’s semi-detached and are bigger, more substantial properties.