Also Known As: 14, ST NICHOLAS CHURCH YARD
Shop with verger's residence above. 1902. Designed by Oliver, Leeson & Wood. Red brick with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. 4 storey.
Dean Street elevation has original ground floor shop front with flanking pilasters, fascia board above and recessed central glazed door. Above rusticated quoins to both corners on upper floors topped with ashlar cornice and curved gable with ball finials. 2 storey canted bay window to first and second floors, each with 3 sashes, with glazing bar upper sashes and moulded pilasters between. Above each window a moulded strap-work panel with brackets between. Top surmounted by iron balustrade with tripartite sash windows divided by ashlar Ionic columns and topped with moulded entablature and central pediment. Right elevation has two narrow sash windows, with glazing bar upper sashes and ashlar keystones.
Rear elevation 2 windows and 3 storeys with ashlar cornice and above a broad curved gable with central ashlar plaque and ball finials. Rusticated ashlar quoins to left corner. Doorway to right with moulded wooden door frame and ornate iron brackets supporting flat hood, 5 panel door with glazing bar overlight. Small window to left with plain sash. Above 2 sash windows, that to left narrower, both with glazing bar upper sashes and ashlar keystones. Above again 2 similar windows to eaves cornice. McCombie - former verger's house with original shop. The house above faces the churchyard behind. A clever design for a two-level site. Red brick with stone quoins; tall balconied oriel window with strapwork panels; shaped parapet with ball finials. In 2013 this is Mayne Bite Ltd.

Victorian terraced houses that are now predominantly used as offices. They have a uniform and simple appearance. Extensively restored in the 1980s. Simple formal pattern of fenestration typical of Georgian buildings. Traditional timber panelled doors surrounded by decorative doorcases. Classical pilasters and entablature surrounds traditional Sunderland-style six panel door that folds back to form reveals for the inner doors. The railings are replacements in mild steel.

Pond on the village green shown on Ordnance Survey first edition of 1856.

The houses around the Sandpit (HER 2630) are of a range of ages and styles, but achieve the appearance of an attractive group through careful choice of natural materials, scale and proportion. Houses on the Sandpit are accessed by informal lanes that add character and charm to the area.

This building was listed Grade II in 1971 with the following description:
'Former barrack guard house and office; restaurant, now disused. 1804-06, by James Wyatt, Surveyor General to the Ordnance Board, restaurant 1970-90. Brown sandstone ashlar guard house with ashlar gable stacks, rear brick block, with slate hipped and gabled roof. Single-depth plan with offices to the left. EXTERIOR: Single storey; windowless street front, 9-window rear office elevation. Guard house gable has a coped pediment with raised corner blocks, a central raised round-headed niche in a blind recess beneath an overhanging blind oriel on moulded stone brackets, rising to the top of the pediment, and containing 3 rifle slots beneath a blind lunette; 4 courses from the ground the quoins are replaced by wide cast-iron blocks. To the right a coped wall with flat-headed opening and rusticated pier to former barracks entrance. Brick block has flat-headed openings, boarded at time of survey (1994). INTERIOR: Not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Attached former barracks wall with flat coping, forms the front wall to the office, and extends approximately 400 metres to the south-east, north-east, and north-west, enclosing the south-east end of the former barracks. HISTORY: The Ordnance Board were responsible for Artillery barracks during the Napoleonic War. One of a pair of striking and unusual guard houses to Fenham Artillery Barracks, connected by a late C20 glazed archway to the gateway (not of special interest), and part of a group with the former officers' and sergeants' messes (qqv). The Barracks wall attached to Fenham Barracks East Lodge was listed on 30/03/87. (Archaeologia Aeliana, 5th series: Breihan J: Army Barracks in the NE in the Era of the French Revolution: 1990-: 171).'
Opened as The Inn on the Park in 1986, later becoming the Cushy Billet in 1995 and was relaunched as The Leazes Inn in 1998. In 2015 a restaurant - Dragoni Nu Bar.

Civic centre: Council Chamber, banqueting hall, associated civic suite and local government offices. Designed 1950, site start 1956, 4-storey blocks 1958, 12 storey block 1960-63, council suite 1965. G W Kenyon, City Architect. Concrete structure, faced generally with Portland stone ashlar, also Cornish granite, Broughton Moor stone, hand made bricks; double glazed windows, bronze frames. Many high quality materials internally, including Norwegian slate, Portuguese marble, English oak, travertine. Courtyard plan:- 12 storey office block to north (with tower and carillon at west end), 4-storey blocks to east and south (rates hall), 2 and 3-storey civic suite to west over vaulted arcade, banqueting hall extending to north and elliptical council chamber on columns extending to west. Civic suite especially designed to very high standard, showing Celtic/Scandinavian influences and executed with a high standard of craftsmanship. Building contains important examples of public art, including:- Geoffrey Clarke: aluminium gates at main entrance and in banqueting hall; David Dewey: carved lettering; John Hutton: engraved glass screen in entrance area; J.R.M. McCheyne:' sea horses on carillon (there are 12 seahorses on top of the tower, each 1.4m high and 1.6m wide; Victor Pasmore: glazed murals in rates hall; John Piper: Aubusson Tapestry, north wall of banqueting hall; Charles Sansbury: external flambeaux and metal screens: David Wynne: River God Tyne external sculpture and Swans in Flight (courtyard). Also the Wren stone, adjacent to south door of block 3 -understood to be one of the original stones selected by Wren for St Pauls Cathedral 'and bears his signature of approval'. The Civic Centre is an important public building of the period; the quality of materials and craftsmanship is extremely high and the building contains numerous works of art of high quality. Main alterations 1968-1996 Block 1: Waiting area enlarged, disabled access ramp added to registrar's offices and staircase from Sandyford Road entrance removed. Block 2: Disabled access ramp to Rates Hall entrance, security delievery compound inserted LG floor and council tax suite created. Block 3: canteen re-located from penthouse to LG floor, porch added to entrance at SW corner of car park and decorative lift doors in west tower replaced. Block 4: Ornamental water feature covered by rockery and disabled access ramp to courtyard. The Civic Centre is the primary evidence of the region trying to revive itself in the post-war period. It is important as a complete assemblage representative of development at civic authorities post Second World War. It has high architectural and group value with high quality materials and craftsmanship. It has high historical value as narratives of the development of national and local government and emerging civic identity and social value as an expression ot the re-emergence of the city region from the depression and unemployment of the 1930s.

A photographic record of internal and limited external spaces was undertaken in 2018 prior to the proposed refurbishments of Blocks 1, 2 and 4 of Newcastle Civic Centre.

Gate piers. Late C18. Sandstone ashlar. 2 tall square piers: rusticated, with
render in the rustications; cornices.

This building was listed Grade II in 1989 with the following description:
'Former theatre and chapel, now the recreation room. 1865. Designed by JW Dyson of Newcastle. Coursed rubble with ashlar dressings and slate roofs, and ashlar coped gables with tall finials. Gables contain small circular windows with glazing bars. Side elevations have 6 round headed windows. Interior has plain Roman Doric pilasters all around, at the west end a raised stage with a segmental arch way decorated by Royal Doulton tiles. The spandrels of this proscenium arch are decorated with more Royal Doulton tiles decorated in an Art Nouveau style.'

Gate piers and gates, circa 1887. Sandstone ashlar and cast iron. 3 tall rusticated
piers with roll moulded plinths, heavy cornices and ball finials on square
bases with scrolled brackets. Single and double gates have uprights with ball
and spike heads above top rail and rosettes below; spearhead dogbars, diagonal
lower braces and stout curved stile finials. Included for group value.

Hospital for sick children. 1887 by John Quilter and George Wheelhouse, for John Fleming (a Newcastle solicitor) in memory of his wife. Red brick (in Flemish Coud) with sandstone ashlar dressings;
lakeland slate roof with lead cupolas. Jacobean style. Symmetrical front of 2 and 3 storeys, 15 bays. Plinth, quoins, frieze and cornice above each floor, coped parapets. Projecting 5-bay central section has frontispiece of 3 full storeys. Glazed double doors and fanlight, in pilasters and enriched archivolt, framed by paired, half fluted pilasters and entablative, with carved spandrels, the centre section of an ashlar 2-storey canted bay. Similar pilasters on first floor support segmental pediment, with armorial cariving, and balustraded parapet. Carved name panel below central windows; windows in side sections. Flanking 2-storey bay have angle canted back to 3-storey outer bays under
shaped gables with oculi and bands. Symmetrical 5-bay outer sections have central wider windows with scrolled feet and balustraded balconies on first floor, segmental pediments above. projecting chimney breast between each pair of outer bays. All windows stone mullioned and transomed (except for first floor centre and second floor in
gabled bays, altered) in quoined surrounds. Pyramidal roof over centre bay has terracotta finial and tall flanking chimneys. All chimneys corniced and quoined. Central on ridge of outer sections are Small cupolas with lead bases, arcaded downs and wrought iron finials.
Similar treatment on returns. Interior: main staircase with elaborate cast
iron balustrade and domed rooflight; original panelling in hall and stairway. Doorway pilasters rest on 2 dated foundation stones, 1 laid by Lady Armstrong, with names of professionals, the other recording the eponymous benefactor's gift "in the Jubilee year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria in memory of Mary his loving wife who died 7th March 1882." (Later C20 insertion on right return is not of interest). Closed in 1987. The staff and patients were moved to the Royal Victoria Infirmary. The buildings became a Business Development Centre.