Built between 1962 and 1976 to store radio equipment. The adjacent chimney is used for radio transmission by the emergency services.

1860-62, Thomas Hawksley engineer.
Built by the Sunderland and South Shields Water Company and began working in 1862. Brick with stone dressings and rusticated quoins. Hipped slate roofs. The
buildings are in an Italianate Rundbogenstil, the narrow windows mostly alternating
single and coupled. One storey. All buildings have deep overhanging eaves with bow brackets. Completed by 1864. Has a 20th century flat roofed extension to the east.

This building was listed Grade II in 1987 with the following description:
'Offices. 1902-4 by Oliver, Leeson and Wood for Sun Insurance Co. Sandstone ashlar with granite plinth and door surrounds. Copper roof. Free style. 6 storeys, 5 bays and 3-bay cimved right corner. Central double door in bolection-moulded architrave with coved rusticated stone surround to that and to fanlight; rusticated ground floor. Prominent brackets above door support balcony to window in segmental- pedimented Ionic aedicule with carved sun. Architraves to all windows; bracketed pediments to those in outer first - floor bays, and cornices on second floor. Prominent modillioned top cornice. Curved corner has high plinth with cushion rustication and guilloche band; door in central bay has fluted architrave under oeil-de-boeuf flanked by large Atlantes, on brackets with much leaf and flower carving, which support first-floor balcony. Balconies have wrought-iron sun motif. Right return to Westgate Road continues plinth and has giant Corinthian pilasters to segmental pediment containing large sunburst. Copper-covered blocking course ornamented with repeated S. Roof curved over corner bay.'
In 2013 this is Saints Hairdressing, Hippo House and Prontaprint. Offices above. LISTED GRADE 2

Shops and houses, now shops and offices. Circa 1836 by John Dobson for Richard
Grainger. Sandstone ashlar; Welsh slate roof. 4 storeys, lO bays. Ground floor
altered; No.92 has circa 1900 shop with slender pilasters and curved glass windows
flanking central glazed recessed door with overlight. 2-bay end pavilions have Giant
Corinthian pilasters and contain first floor windows framed by flat Tuscan pilasters
with entablature; sill string and architrave to second floor windows. Central 6 bays
have architraves to all windows and second-floor sill string, with second floor
entablature. Top storey has pilasters in pavilions, plain reveals to all windows,
arcaded balustrade above pavilions. All windows sashes with glazing bars. Ridge
brick chimneys. LISTED GRADE 2*

Shops and houses, now offices. Circa 1836 by Dobson for Richard Grainger.
Sandstone ashlar; roof not visible. 4 storeys, 6 bays. Flat pilasters and
entablature to ground floor with C2O alterations. Upper floors have sash windows,
some with glazing bars, in plain reveals. Second floor band; second floor
entablature. Top cornice. LISTED GRADE 2

The artificial cooling pond was fed by water from the well under the engine house. It was needed because the site did not have a natural surface stream. Water from the cooling pond was recycled after use via underground pipes. In 1930 the steam powered plant was replaced by electrical equipment, making the cooling pond redundant.

Shops and houses, now shops and offices. Circa 1837 probably by John Wardle for
Richard Grainger. Sandstone ashlar; roof not visible. 4 storeys, 15 bays. Ground
floor altered. Plain reveals to windows, some altered, some sashes with glazing
bars, in upper floors. Second floor has sill band and entablature with prominent
cornice. Top floor has cornice and blocking course. Circa 1900 office entrance
to No. 94. LISTED GRADE 2

Commercial building. 1884-6 by John Johnstone for the Newcastle and Gateshead
Gas Company. Sandstone ashlar, with slate roofs, in French Renaissance style.
3 storeys and attics, basement on south front to St. John Street. 3 by 3 wide
bays plus an angled corner bay. Arcaded ground floor altered on West front to
provide shop windows. The central bay on either front breaks forward in a 2-
storey rounded oriel with a balustraded parapet before an elaborate 3-stage
pilastered gable backing on to a pavilion roof. The side bays have shallower
square pilastered projections and smaller pedimented 2-stage attic gables... The
corner bay is an oriel, on a heavy rounded and moulded corbel, rising to a dome
with a smaller drum, dome and finial above. Horizontal stability is given by
banded rustication on the narrow wall spaces and by entablatures with panelled
blocking courses at floor levels. 3 or 4 plain windows to each bay. LISTED GRADE 2

Shops and houses, forming east front of covered market. 1835 by John Dobson for
Richard Grainger. Sandstone ashlar; Welsh slate roof. 4 storeys, 46 bays in all;
symmetrical. End bays of central group contain market entrances. Giant Corinthian
pilasters to 3-bay end pavilions, and to these entrance bays, above C20 shops.
Plain reveals to sash windows on upper floors; some have glazing bars; second
floor has aprons and slightly projecting sills; architraves with bracketed cornices
to first-floor sashes above market entrances. Second-floor band and dentilled
cornice. Top cornice, with parapet and pilasters, some with acroteria, to central
and end groups; with blocking course to intermediate bays. Mid C20 canopy to most
shops. One-bay returns complete the composition of Nos. 1 to 37 Nelson Street
(q.v.) and Nos. 1-25 Nun Street (q.v.). LISTED GRADE 1

Bank. 1862-3 by J.E. Watson. Sandstone ashlar with Welsh slate roof. Classical
style. 2 storeys, 5:3:5 bays and 3 in left return. Pedimented centre has double
door and overlight; rusticated piers to ground floor arcade, with round-headed
windows under modillioned cornice. First floor has central balcony and engaged
Ionic Order supporting pediment with motto INDUSTRY under beehive and cornucopia;
round-headed windows; modillioned cornice and pediment. Top balustrade. Hipped
roof. Left return in similar style has arms of Newcastle in pediment. LISTED GRADE 2