This building was listed Grade II in 1987 with the following description:
'Students' Union building. Dated 1924 on tower; by Cackett, Burns, Dick and McKellar, for Armstrong College, later King's College, University of Durham; now Newcastle University. Bright red brick with diaper work; ashlar quoins and dressings; roof not visible. E-plan. Jacobethan style. Basement and 3 storeys; 1:7:1 bays, the outer ones breaking forward with 3 bays in inner return. Projecting central 4-storey tower has keyed open arch in Roman Doric porch with paired pilasters and parapet with coats of arms. Irregular-block jambs to stone mullioned and transomed windows of 2 and 3 lights; 6-light full-height canted bays on projecting ends. Cornices on each floor; diabolo balusters to parapet; small square turret has obelisk finials; high domed lantern with ball and weather vane finial.' {1}.
Extension by Sir William Whitfield {McCombie 2009, 40}.

Column tomb. Circa 1857. Memorial to Thomas Oliver, architect, of 3 Ricton
Place, Newcastle, died 9 December 1857, and his wife d.1886. Sandstone ashlar.
Panelled pedestal with egg-and-dart moulded cornice supports octagonal column with
urn finial.

End bays are returns of Nos. 11-43 Clayton Street (q.v.) and Nos. 95-137 Grainger
Street (q.v.)and are described here since they complete the composition. Shops
and public house, forming south elevation of covered market. 1835 by John Dobson for Richard Grainger. Sandstone ashlar; roof not visible. Classical style. 3
storeys; 34 bays in all. 5 entrances to market, 2 at right with segmental arches
and pilasters. Ground floor shops C20. Giant Corinthian pilasters to end pavilions.
Sash windows, most with glazing bars, in plain reveals; second-floor windows have
aprons and slightly-projecting sills; some renewed first-floor lintels. End bays
have tripartite window in architraves on floor band; second-floor dentilled cornice.
Top parapet with pilasters to 8-bay projections. Blocking course to intermediate
bays. Includes the Butchers Arms Hotel and Pine Apple Hotel Public House on OS second edition. The Butcher's Arms was a Robert Deuchar house from the 1870s. It closed in 1942. The Pineapple had a grill in the basement and a dining room on the first floor in the 1930s. It became the Tap & Spile in 1993. Now a shop. There are pineapple motifs above the columns. Inside on the ground floor there are plaster pineapple motifs but these relate to the C20 Pineapple pub not the 19th century Pineapple Hotel.

Decorative sandstone fountain. The central cast iron spout has three tiers, two with fluted edges. Part of the original design of the pumping station and was in visible working order in 1870.

Steps, walls, piers, gates and railings. Brick, ashlar and wrought iron, 1890 and
'97. Stone steps to door flanked by low chamfered stone walls. Chamfered stone
coping to low brick front walls. 2 piers in front of door, one at left end of wall
and two in right end wall, 5 in all. Panelled square piers, on plinths, with
paired brackets to cornice of coping with urn finials. Railings: spike-headed
alternating with twisted railings; panelled principals with scroll finials; gates
in style of panels.

This structure was listed Grade II in 1987 with the following description:
'Water tower. Dated on plaque on tank NER/1891; for North Eastern Railway. Rockfaced sandstone with ashlar dressings; iron tank. 3 storeys, 5 bays and tank on top. Flat stone lintels and slightly projecting stone sills to mullioned-and-transomed windows on ground and first floors; similar sills to round-headed second-floor windows under stone arches. Moulded cornice, Chimney stacks on returns and high corniced chimneys, square yellow pots to that at right. Tank about 2m high and of same dimensions as building.'

Houses, now offices. Circa 1840. English garden wall bond brick with painted ashlar plinth and dressings; Welsh slate roof. Basement and 3 storeys, 10 bays;
and left wing of 2 storeys, 6 bays. Wider, projecting right bay. Blocked basement openings; wedge stone lintels to sashes with late C19 glazing bars on ground and
first floors, original sashes on second floor with projecting stone sills. Ground floor sill band; first floor aprons and sill band. Roof, hipped at right, has 4
ashlar-corniced brick chimneys. Right return has steps up to wide door and over- light in architrave. Left wing has paired hardboard-covered doors with overlights
in architraves; wedge stone lintels to sashes, some with margin lights; ground floor projecting stone sills; first floor sill and eaves bands; gutter cornice.
Roof has 2 segmental-headed dormers with renewed glazing; 2 ridge chimneys.

The property attracted professional occupants; Kelly’s Trade Directory (1886) showed a civil engineer, surgeon and corn merchant in residence. Later trade directories continue to show
occupation of the townhouses by private individuals until 1959. Kelly’s Trade Directory (1959) provides evidence of commercial tenants, presumably occupying offices rather than homes. These include food makers Numol Ltd., a cinema company and other manufacturers. The building was converted to student accommodation no earlier than the late 1980s.

Recorded 2018 ahead of conversion to studio apartments.

Includes Nos. 44b and 44c Blackett Street (q.v.). Houses, now offices and shops.
1825-31; by Thomas Oliver and John Dobson for Richard Grainger. Sandstone ashlar; Welsh slate roof. Basement, 3 storeys and some later attics; 33 bays in all, with slightly-projecting 5-bay end pavilions defined by giant pilasters. Houses vary
from 3 to 5 bays. 8-panelled doors and overlights (with glazing bars to No.4).
Plain reveals to these and to sash windows, mostly with glazing bars; aprons to
ground floor windows. First floor sill string in outer bays; second floor
entablature and cornice; top plainer cornice. Later mansard roof with 5 dormers
to No.6; 2 inserted pedimented dormers to No.1.Ashlar ridge chimneys. Right
return in similar style has C20 shops inserted in ground floor, giant corner
pilaster at right; glazing bars to sash windows on upper floors. Source:
T. Oliver New Picture of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle 1831, 97. Only this east side now survives of the square. McCombie - First plans were by Thomas Oliver, then according to Oliver in 1831, elevations were designed by John Dobson. The ashlar-fronted houses in their spacious square staked a claim to formality and monumentality that was new to the town. The three ranges were of Greek simplicity. The north range was planned with a central projection with Ionic columns, but instead a slight projection was built with plain giant pilasters. The west range was like the surviving east range with giant plain antae or pilasters, framing five-bay end pavilions, with prominent cornice and lower attic storey. A Grecian honeysuckle-patten cast-iron balcony linked the pavilions at first floor level. On the surviving east side, steps lead to doors above basements protected by renewed railings. No. 5 is now a mere façade to Metro ventilation shafts. No. 1 has some original interior detail including ceiling stucco. The north and west ranges of Eldon Square were demolished to make way for Eldon Square shopping centre (1969-76). A contemporary booklet justified the decision: 'Their architectural quality had been… impaired… it was found impossible to incorporate them in the two-level shopping centre without such drastic further alterations as would defeat the purpose of the retention'.

House with shop, now restaurant and offices.C1784; circa 1900 shop. English
bond brick with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof. 4 storeys and attics; 2
bays. Shop in classical style has right entrance; plain sashes above have lintels
with false keystones; projecting stone sills to upper floors; first floor sill
band. Roof has inserted gabled dormer with bargeboards, one end brick chimney. In 2013 this is Blue Velvet.

Following a fire in 1900 which destroyed Robinson's print works and paper warehouse and adjacent buildings, J.D. Milburn (shipping owner) bought the land following the fire for the construction of an office block. Oliver, Leeson and Wood were appointed as architects of the new building which would occupy the steeply sloping triangular site. Other people who worked on the building include: Stephen Easten (builder), Swinney Bros (metal frame of building), H Watson and Sons (heating) and George Laidler (interior decoration and glazing). When building started a metal barrier was inserted between the site and the St. Nicholas's Church to avoid vibration damage. Huge foundations were also dug for the new building including 30ft+ deep pile foundations on The Side. The building officially opened in 1905.
This building was listed Grade II in 1987 with the following description:
'Office block. Dated 1905 on plaques; begun 1902. By Oliver, Leeson and Wood. Dark red granite basement and entrances; rusticated sandstone ashlar ground floor; brick with ashlar dressings above. Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. Triangular plan with 3 light wells. Free Baroque style. Left basement; 5 storeys and attics; 13 bays. Tower-like first bay, of plain brick with ashlar bands, has full-height pilaster and banded gable chimney. Basement dies into slope at 8th (entrance) bay containing double door and fanlight in hollow-chamfered arched reveal in Ionic doorcase. Similar arches in 4th and 12th bays contain round- headed windows; sash windows in other bays. Ground-floor cornice, bracketed over arches to support 3-storey stone-mullioned-and-transomed canted oriels; intermediate windows have keyed elliptical brick arches on first and second floors, flat stone lintels in band on third; all sashes with projecting stone sills and upper glazing bars. Third-floor cornice. Fourth (attic) storey has stilted Diocletian windows, with drip moulds, above canted bays; and elliptical-headed windows elsewhere. Top cornice; console bracketed high gables: above the canted bays, contain stone- mullioned-and-transomed windows in aedicules. High-pitched roof has paired sashes in dormers. Rounded corner section at left: 5 bays under turret. Rear to The Side of 20 wide bays, stepping up a steep slope, with varying numbers of floors and 4 entrances; the highest bay has large top sundial; that next to it contains niche with bust of Admiral Collingwood and inscription commemorating his birth in 1748 in a house on that site. Interior has much high quality wood and bevelled glass; circular balustrade to principal lift well with heraldic glass, by Laidler of Newcastle, facing light well. Low-relief panels,in Arts and Crafts painted-leather style, in Dean Street entrance hall; much original detail and Art Nouveau tiling,the latter overpainted.'
McCombie - Entrances on several levels. An effective composition with floors marked by cornices. Big attic gables. Two-storey basement with a shop entrance on the lowest level, the rounded south corner (now Oldfield's restaurant)Interior has light wells, stairwells and corridors, glazed screens, armorial glass, panelled walls - handled in masterly fashion, with an especially impressive entrance from Dean Street. Extensive use of tiles in the public areas, an early example of the work of H & R Johnson. Successfully restored by them in 1990-1. (Some confusion about the tiles - Newcastle Chronicle (1903) says that the tile work contract had gone to Marsden Tile company of Burslem - perhaps this was changed following the article).
Technical elements: The building has a metal frame, or is at least partially framed. It is unclear whether this is steel or cast iron. The building was heated by steam – this was still in use until the early 1990s at least. It was lit by electricity and had four electric lifts from the start (both would have been expected in a large new building of 1902). Each section of the building also has a fireproof staircase.
Tenants: Some of the first tenants were the solicitors Ingledew and Fenwick and The Ashington Coal Company (four directors of which were Milburns). The Coal Company stayed in the building until they went out of business in 1946. At least half of the first tenants were related to the coal industry. By 1907 there were also 46 offices let to shipping concerns with aspects of the industry represented.