Archbold Terrace, Carlton Villas (Quaker Meeting House)

Carlton Villas are shown on the Ordnance Survey second edition map of 1898. Carlton Villa West and East were two adjoining large houses, each with a double front and central doorway. A drive approached the front of both houses from Jesmond Road, with separate service entrances to the rear.
They were occupied by a wine merchant and a ship owner in 1874. By 1889 they were listed as occupied by a wine merchant (A Singers) and timber merchant (J H Hancock). By 1919 Carlton Villa East was part of the Central Newcastle High School for juniors and Carlton Villa West housed an ophthalmic surgeon, J D Wardale.
The surrounding villas were demolished by the 1970s, but Carlton Villa East survived as part of Jesmond Quaker Meeting House. The Friends moved to Jesmond in 1961 when their meeting house on Pilgrim Street was demolished to make way for Swan House roundabout. The front door, inscribed doorway keystone and meeting room benches were from the Pilgrim Street building. A meeting room was built on the back of the villa in 1961. The Quakers left the building in 2011 to move to new premises in Gosforth, taking the front door with them. The building was demolished in 2018.
Built into the garden wall of the Jesmond meeting house was a memorial stone recording the death of Abigail Tizacke who died in 1679 aged only 7 weeks. Her parents were Quakers who were married at the Gateshead meeting house, where the baby's death was also registered, and where she was probably buried. The memorial stone was originally laid in the family garden next to the Ouseburn Glassworks.