A sylish row of six spacious double-fronted houses built in the 1870s. They were superior residences for professional persons (surgeons, lawyers, shipowners etc) but all became private hotels in the 1920s. After World War Two, Nos. 1 and 2 became regional offices for the Ministry of Health and other government agencies. No. 3 became a commercial college. Nos. 4 and 5 were a hotel. No. 6 was a nurses' home. Today the buildings are mostly offices and an aparthotel.

Opened in 1898. A substantial brick building with a grocery shop on the ground floor with a hall for social events above. There is an inscribed stone lintel above the entrance. For a while the United Methodist Free Church held their services here until their church on St. George's Terrace was opened in 1901. In 1914 the co-op was occupied by part of West Jesmond School, which had been taken over by the army. Since 1923 a Masonic Lodge has met on the upper floor. This site was the home of the Avenues Lawn Tennis Club for seven years before the co-op was built.

Completed around 1901 'to meet the requirements of the families of respectable workmen and members of the lower middle class'. All the houses had 'the latest conveniences, overshot roofs and superior bay window masonry'. Each house contained 6, 7 or 9 rooms. In the front rooms there were carved oak mantelpieces. The street is named after William Cavendish (1592-1676), first Duke of Newcastle. He was a Royalist general in the English Civil War. He was born in Yorkshire but his mother, Catherine Ogle, was from Northumberland. She inherited vast estates including a third of Jesmond.

A row of private houses on the east side of Osborne Road between Queen's Road and Grosvenor Road. St. Margaret's Boarding House opened around 1912 in three houses at the Queen's Road end of the terrace. An advertisement dated 1929 describes its pleasant situation in a fashionable suburb, with 'every home comfort, dining rooms with separate tables, billiard room etc'. It later became St. Margaret's Temperence Hotel, then St. Margaret's Private Hotel. In the 1960s it was the Avon Hotel. The four adjacent houses became 'The Methodist International House'. Today the two hotels are one large hotel. The gothic attic dormer windows have been replaced by one modern continuous attic window. Most doors have been replaced by windows. The chimneys have been removed. Most of the other private houses south of Grosvenor Road are also hotels.

60 white brick houses on the west side of the terrace. Completed in the 1880s. They had ground floor bay windows, front gardens behind iron railings (taken down in the War), wooden pedimented porch hoods. William Temple was the builder.

Suffolk House was built around 1882 as a ladies' private school at the cornor of Osborne Road and Fern Avenue. An advert for the school said it was 'a charming situation in one of the healthiest suburbs of Newcastle within a few minutes walk of the Moor and Jesmond Dene, and convenient of access from the city by tramcars passing the school every ten minutes'. The school closed around 1902 and the building became a house. Occupants included a ship owner, solicitor and cashier. From around 1960 the building was the Gregg High School for girls. It is now student apartments.

The terrace of houses between Holly Avenue West and Lily Avenue were completed around 1882. Residents tended to be local businessmen and professional people. After World War II they were divied up into flats and apartments. The exception is the corner property on Holly Avenue West. This house was the home of an engineer, but later it became a doctor's surgery and is Holly Medical Group today. On its gable end is a decorated slab with the rod of Asclepius (Greek God of Medicine) entwined by a serpent. This is the international symbol of medicine and the emblem of the NHS.

On east side of Osborne Road between Holly Avenue and Fern Avenue are six large double-fronted terraced houses of c 1879. They have an open stone porch to the front door. They are built in white brick, are two-storeys with attics and have wrought ironwork over the ground floor bay windows. In 1910 occupants included a French consul, an enamelled slate manufacturer, a coal owner, a physician and a solicitor. On the opposite side of the road the red brick houses are a few years later in date.

No. 1 Osborne Avenue was built and occupied by William Temple, who built much of the housing between here and Acorn Road to the north. On its gable end facing Osborne Road the house is decorated with floral terracotta tiles and the date 1878. Temple's daughter, a botanist, persuaded her father to name his new streets after plants (Acorn Road, Fern Avenue, Gowan Terrace, Holly Avenue, Larkspur Terrace, Lily Crescent and Avenue, Mistletoe Road). Later Temple moved to a bigger house on Osborne Road (Tyneholme) - now the site of the Nuffield Hospital.

Two-storey terraced houses on the east side of St. George's Terrace. Between Mistletoe Road and Acorn Road 28 houses were built 1882-1885 and were called Moor View. The houses from Acorn Road northwards were built 1889-1900 and were called St. George's Terrace after the newly built Church of St. George built in 1888. Moor View became part of St. George's Terrace in 1901. In 1971 five houses at the corner of Acorn Road were demolished for a small supermarket.