Ochre Yards and
The Railway Quarter

Gateshead's newest place to live, work and play

Ochre Yards

Fletcher Road

The estate's access road from Half Moon Lane: Fairway Court, Kenilworth House, New Eden House and the Fletcher Road frontage of the three Greensfield Close blocks.

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PostcodesNE8 2AW, NE8 2AY, NE8 2ET
Homes 84 flats plus the Greensfield Close blocks C · confirmed

Blocks

Fletcher Road

Fairway Court

NE8 2AY · 49

Forty-nine flats on Fletcher Road.

C · confirmed

Fletcher Road

Kenilworth House

NE8 2AW · 35

Thirty-five flats in a converted stone range of the Greenesfield works on Fletcher Road, two storeys to the street and three on the north side, with arched cast-iron windows and pale-blue doors; run by Ochre Yards One Limited with Kingston Property Services as managing agent.

C · confirmed

Places

studio

Last Arrow Games

New Eden House, Fletcher Road

Private video-game development studio, opened 2026.

Not open to the public C · confirmed

office

New Eden House

Fletcher Road

L-shaped two-storey sandstone building on Fletcher Road, the Greenesfield works' office block recorded by the HER, carrying Gateshead Council's 2011 blue plaque to Sir Vincent Raven, who was based here as the NER's last Chief Mechanical Engineer.

Not open to the public C · confirmed

The name

Named after Edward Fletcher, NER Locomotive Superintendent 1854–1882 and the works' first chief; he had been apprenticed to George Stephenson.

Energy ratings

79 homes in the postcodes of the blocks on this street have an energy performance certificate. The middle rating is D.

BandHomes
B3
C32
D32
E10
F2

Latest certificate for each home, issued between 2009 and 2026; an older certificate may not reflect later improvements. Look up a single home on the GOV.UK EPC register.

Source: Get energy performance of buildings data (MHCLG), updated 2026-09-27.

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