Opened 20 December 1909. Could accommodate 1500 persons. The façade of the building was built of red pressed bricks with stone dressings. The body of the hall and the roof was of corrugated iron (later replaced by asbestos). Inside it was lined with wood and plaster. The architect was J. Shaw and the decoration by W.T. Gibson of Gosforth. The proscenium plasterwork was by Frediani Brothers. The hall was lit by electricity but also had gas emergency lighting. Olympia was owned by the Northern Cinematograph Company. In March 1910 Sidney Bacon took over the cinema. Sound arrived in 1929. Union Cinemas took over the Olympia in 1936. It was later run by ABC. The Olympia closed on 8 April 1961. The building was used as a warehouse by British Home Stores until demolition in 1971.

Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition.

This building was listed Grade II in 1987 with the following description:
'Army, riding school; now club. 1849, attributed to John Dobson, for the Northumberland Yeomanry. English garden wall bond brick with ashlar plinth and dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. 2 storeys, 3 bays. Pedimented gable end to street contains 3 tall arched recesses with long keystones, the central projecting into blind stone roundel to stone-arched heads. Flat stone sills and surrounds to ground-floor windows and transomed first-floor round-headed windows, the transoms forming recessed sections of cornice. Central windows paired, with stone mullion. Source: H. Pease History of the Northumberland Yeomanry (Hussars) 1924, p.12'.
Army riding school for the Northumberland Yeomanry, later City of Newcastle Employees Club. Faulkner and Greg describe it as classical but a 'dour utilitarian structure'. Unusual for a Dobson building to be brick, but stone was used for some of the details such as the surrounds of the three arched windows. Ordnance Survey second edition shows 'Ginnett's Amphitheatre' (later shown only as 'Hippodrome') next to the building. For most of the second half of the nineteenth century, the recruits of the riding school received instruction from the famous Sergeant Major J. Burghersh Forbes, a hero of the 'Light Brigade'.
McCombie - restored 1991 by Ainsworth Spark for the Polytechnic. The hall had bare brick walls. Its complex roof trusses are now barely discernible.

Shown on 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map. The Northumberland, Durham and Newcastle Infirmary for the Diseases of the Eye. Purpose-built (designed by Newcombe and Knowles) in Queen Anne style in red brick and Dennick stone and green slate roof and opened in 1885, Newcastle Eye Hospital had four wards and three private rooms. It cost £6,000. By the 1930s the hospital had a waiting list of 150 and was hampered by lack of space and facilities. It closed in 1956-7 when patients were transferred to Walkergate Hospital (HER 5390). The Eye Hospital had first been opened by two surgeons (John Fife and Thomas Michael Greenhow) in Brunswick Place in 1822 (HER 7890). The poor were treated without charge. The hospital moved to Prudhoe Street in 1824 (HER 10738), before moving to Saville Row in 1856 and St Mary's Place in 1884.

Newcastle's oldest surviving Victorian school, built and owned by St. Thomas Church (HER 8897). It was run on the same principals as a National School. The school was built in 1838 and opened in June of that year. It had a ground floor schoolroom for boys and a first floor schoolroom for girls. The architect is unknown. Boys were taught reading and writing, girls reading, writing, knitting and sewing. Henry Page was the first teacher. The school could take 150 pupils. Before 1858 infant school extensions were built and separate yards for boys, girls and infants. In 1866 the ground floor school room was extended and in 1895 the infants rooms were extended and a cloakroom built. In 1900 a play shed was built in the east yard and toilets. In 1906 two sets of cloakrooms and a second staircase to the upper floor were built. The school closed in 1937 at the end of the 90 year lease. Since 1960 the building has been unoccupied and is in deteriorating condition. The original and main range of the school building is in simple Tudor Gothic style. It is built of local snecked construction with a pitched slate roof with end chimneys. Windows on the ground floor have been enlarged from Tudor mullioned and transomed form. The first floor east gable window retains its original form. The is a small single storey extension at the east end and a two-storey extension at the west end, in sandstone with slate roofs. The extension to the ground floor school room has a gable chimney and timber ridge vent with an ornate finial. Several sections of the original high boundary wall survive. Inside there are three metal columns supporting the first floor. Some timber dado and skirting survives, along with original and secondary glazed timber screens, fireplaces, shallow cupboards and some gas light fittings. The first floor schoolroom has a Queen Post roof structure. The school was put forward for listing in Nov 2009 but was not added to the list.

The City Hall (HER 6265) and Baths were built in 1928 by C. Nicholas and J.E. Dixon Spain. Neo-Georgian design with a colonnaded entrance. They were listed Grade II in 1992 with the following description:
'City Hall and Public baths. 1928. Designed by Nicholas and Dixon-Spain.Steel framed, brown brick with ashlar and red brick dressings, and slate hipped roofs. Ashlar plinth. Northumberland Road, front two storeys and 25 windows. Central entrance block, 7 windows with slightly projecting 3 window centre topped by a large pediment with circular window. 3 round headed arches with panel pilasters, rusticated ashlar and above a deeply moulded band. Above 3 glazing bar sashes the central one with a moulded ashlar surround and brackets supporting a flat hood. Set-back on eitherside, a rusticated ashlar and above a deeply moulded band. Above 3 glazing bar sashes the central one with a moulded ashlar surround and brackets supporting a flat hood. Set-back eitherside, a rusticated ground floor with small barred basement windows and above single glazing bar sashes. Upper floor has single glazing bar sashes. Outer bays, set back again, also have glazing bar to each floor. 9 window side wings are similar, each has tall ashlar Doric portico with central columns between flanking antae, which project slightly in front of further antae topped by a heavy entablature and parapet. Set back on eitherside are blank walls, with further blank walls beyond. Above 5 square windows with moulded surrounds, set back on eitherside are single small square windows, and further single windows beyond all topped by a coped parapet. College Street front, 2 storey, 11 window front. Central, slightly projecting, 9 windows articulated with giant Doric pilasters, with ashlar bases and red brick dressings. Bays 4 and 6 have doorways with double panel doors and bolection mould surrounds, the remaining ground floor openings are square with plain stone surrounds. Above the doorways are tall panels with red brick surrounds. Above a thick ashlar band and 9 windows with moulded ashlar surrounds and bracketed cills, the central 7 openings have glazing bar cross casements and the outer ones are blind. Above a dentilated entablature with brick frieze and panel parapet above. Set back at eitherside a single bay, with double panel doors and bolection mould surrounds, above a single glazing bar sash to each floor with red brick surrounds and above a plain entablature. John Dobson Street front is similar with giant Doric pilasters supporting an entablature and panel parapet, with 3 large round headed doorways with moulded ashlar surrounds and large keystones, at the centre and over bays. Between 3 square windows on eitherside with plain ashlar surrounds, and above 9 square windows with moulded ashlar surrounds. At rear a tall tapering octagonal brick chimney stack with ashlar moulded cap. INTERIORS. City Hall has marble lined foyer with 3 round arches at either end, with mahogany and gilt fans, and between 2 urn shaped lamps. The north wall has 3 similar arches with double panel doors, and the south wall has 3 similar arches with double panel doors, and the south wall has 5 similar entrance arches with double glazed doors and fanlights. Deeply coffered plaster ceiling: Eitherside are staircases with metal balustrades with wave mould decoration. Hall is rectangular with narrower raised stage to north, and a large gallery with extended curved sides to the south. Gallery front decorated with rosettes, panels and wave moulds. Deeply coved ceiling above dentilated cornice, with elaborate coffered centre. Behind the stage a later organ in an eighteenth century style case. Public Baths have rectangular foyer with round headed plaster openings and deeply moulded coving, and groin vaulted corridors. Mens bath has large rectangular tiled pool, and cantilevered viewing gallery around 3 slides with curved metal railings with Greek-key pattern, stepped wooden decking and wooden rails. Coffered plaster ceiling with central segmentally curved central section with sunken overlights. Womens bath similar, though smaller, without the gallery, and with a simpler ceiling with curved centre and overlights. Turkish bath has ashlar Doric pilasters and dado, mahogany panelled changing rooms and doors, circular glazed dome and coffered ceiling plus inlaid floor. Steam room has groin vaulted ceiling with 3 circular domes, and marble slabs.'
The Baths were covered over during WWII due to fuel shortages and the building was used for the fire guard and an emergency telephone exchange. It was also host to an American servicemen club. The pools opened again in 1945 but winter they were covered and used for other activities until the early 1960s when it was decided that swimming should be a year round activity. Recorded in late 2016- early 2017 ahead of proposed refurbishment.

This building was listed Grade II in 1971 with the following description:
'Dame Allan's School, now Careers Centre. 1883 by R.J. Johnson. Brick with ashlar plinth, quoins and dressings; roofs of plain tiles; lead tower roofs. 2 blocks forming nearly L-plan. 2 storeys, 9 bays: and set-back right bay. 3-storey towers flank central wide entrance bay. Projecting entrance has 3 open arches on 2 fat Tuscan columns with entasis; Ipswich oriel above. Towers have small square windows in first and third stages; tall sashes in second with keystones and segmental heads; top cornice, parapet with ball finials, and ogee-hipped roofs with vane finials. Similar sash windows in 3 bays set back at either sides shaped gable to right set-back bay and niche containing statue of Dame Allan. Steeply-pitched hipped roof to main block: with gable over central oriel; shaped gables and tall corniced, panelled chimneys to right return.'
McCombie - in Norman Shaw's Queen Anne style. A charming building: fat Tuscan columns flank the entrance under an 'Ipswich' oriel; ogee-domed towers, thick-framed sash windows; fine entrance piers, repeated on the Northumberland Road wing, and railings.

This building was listed Grade II* in 1987 with the following description:
'Congregational, now United Reformed, Church. 1882-4 by T. Lewis Banks. Snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings; grey and green slate roofs. Cruciform church, with corner, and side aisles, aligned north-south; ritual west porches and vestibule; Sunday School,hall and house behind. Free C13 style. Gabled west front has 10 arched windows under tall 5-bay arcade, the outer bays blind; higher blind arcade in gable peak; angle buttresses with spirelets. Flanking gabled porches have double doors with elaborate hinges, triple nook shafts, shouldered surrounds and carved tympana. Lancet windows, paired in corner and triple in side aisles. Complex high roofs, with slate-hung central lantern and tall octagonal spire. Interior: walls rendered, with ashlar dressings, above boarded dado. 4 square piers with shafts to arches of side aisles and lower arches of corner aisles. Glass roof on pendentives to lantern; arch-braced collar trusses to side aisles. West gallery. High Gothic-style pulpit with wrought-iron grilles. Choir pews are memorial to dead of both world wars. Much C19 painted glass, including, 2 windows by Atkinson Bros. of Newcastle in memory of Elizabeth and Florence Dunford of 1888 and 1919; and one by G. J. Baguley and Son in memory of William Crossley d.1918. Source: J.C.G. Binfield 'The Building of a Town Centre Church : St James ' Congregational Church, Newcastle upon Tyne' Northern History v.XVIII, Leeds 1983, pp.l53-181.'
Refurbished in 1997. Remarkable ceiling, chandelier, stained glass and ironwork. Forms a group with Sunday School, hall and a house behind.

This building was listed Grade II in 1997 with the following description:
'Unitarian church and attached meeting room. 1938-40. Designed by Cackett, Burns Dick & Mackellar. Concrete and steel with brown brick cladding and reconstituted ashlar stone dressings and flat concrete roofs. Vertical brick plinth. Square east tower, nave with aisles, west gallery and north porch. Main north front has large recessed entrance with reconstituted stone triple archway with 4 rectangular panelled columns supporting a cornice, with simple iron railings and gates. Inner doorway has moulded surround and double panelled doors, flanked by windows with plain ashlar surrounds. To left 5 tall rectangular windows in plain ashlar surrounds and to right a single smaller 3-light casement window in similar surround. Single doorway at base of tower. Tower has very tall single window to north, west and south fronts with set back vertical brick parapet with ashlar coping. East end has entrance to Durant Hall with plain brick surround and recessed double panelled doors. East front has 3 windows with plain ashlar surrounds and flanking drainpipes. Projecting staircase towe to right 4 storey with 2 square windows to each floor. South front originally obscured by earlier building which have been demolished . INTERIOR has nave with aisles without arcades, raised raked gallery at west end, slightly raised chancel with organ chamber to north and vestry to south. Fittings include original wooden pews with decorated bench ends, and similar choir stalls. Large square wooden pulpit with inlaid wave bands and moulded top, similar altar and reading desk. Original globe light fittings. Abstract patterned reredos. Wooden organ case. Glazed panel doors and boxed heaters throughout. Fine square coffered ceilings to nave and aisles. Durant Hall and other rooms have similar high quality interior fittings.'
Probably the last Art Deco building to be built in Newcastle. Internal arrangement is reminiscent of those of Frank Lloyd Wright. Original furniture. At the opening in 1940 the church was described as "a simple and dignified edifice, every line of which expresses 'fitness' - fitness for vigorous service in a modern and 'different' world. It is a striking example of the dignity, strength and beauty that can be expressed through the firm horizontal and vertical line alone". The building cost over £30,000. The organ was built as a chamber instrument for Robert Afleck JP of Gateshead. It was purchased by the Unitarian Church in 1901 and moved from the New Bridge Street Church to the new one at Ellison Place in 1939. There is a bronze plaque in the inner vestibule in memory of the 1914-1918 dead of the congregation and a memorial to John Thomas Southern 1852-1912. Durant Hall is named after William Durant, an independent dissenting minister who came to Newcastle in 1645 and died in 1681. His headstone is on the wall of the outer vestibule. There are two paintings of Rev William Turner in the church. He was minister at the Hanover Square Chapel 1782-1841.

Shown on 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map. The NMR records this as a Salem Church (Methodist New Connexion). Built in 1877. In use until 1941. Seated 900. The congregation came here from Hood Street. The chapel was closed after war damage and the congregation moved to Sandyford Road Methodist Church.