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Ochre Yards · Worsdell Drive

Willbrook House

The largest block on the estate, with 107 flats, most rated EPC C.

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Postal addressWillbrook House, Worsdell Drive, NE8 2AF, NE8 2AZ
Homes 107 flats per the address data, reached through several entrances; the corner entrance serves flats 1–31, the others are still to record C · confirmed source
Tenure Leasehold C · confirmed
Management companyNot yet recorded — one of Ochre Yards One to Eleven, or a newer company. U · unverified
Managing agentKingston Property Services C · confirmed
Catchment primary schoolCaedmon Community Primary School C · confirmed
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Where it is

NZ 2509 6323 OS grid · 54.96312, -1.60968

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A seven-storey rendered block with a dark stone base and a central column of glass-fronted balconies, on a corner of Worsdell Drive; a long brick and render range with balconies and a gated archway runs away behind it
Willbrook House from Worsdell Drive; the corner entrance serves flats 1–31. September 2026.

The name

Named for No. 60150 Willbrook, a Peppercorn A1 built at Darlington in June 1949 and named after the racehorse that won the 1914 Doncaster Cup. Allocated to Gateshead shed, 52A, from July 1949 to November 1960, then York. Withdrawn October 1964 and scrapped by Drapers of Hull.

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