Gatehouse to Banqueting Hall. 1869-70 by R. Norman Shaw for Sir William
Armstrong. Rock-faced sandstone with ashlar plinth, quoins and dressings; Welsh
slate roof with stone gable copings. Irregular plan, with gateway at left and
house at right. One storey and attics, 4 bays. Gothic style. Gabled left bay
has wide 2-centred- arched porch with head-stopped drip mould; ledge boarded door
with elaborate hinges under Tudor arch at right. Stone-muiiioned-and-transomed
windows. Central gabled half dormer. Carved panels above gateway have WGA at
left and 1870 at right. Steeply-pitched roof has roll-moulded coping and
finials; tall paired octagonal chimneys.

This building was listed Grade II in 1981 with the following description:
'Police Stables (formerly 8/5/81 stables and lodge to Jesmond Dene House) G.V. II Stables and lodge. Early/mid C19. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings; graduated Lakeland slate roof. Irregular main range terminating in lodge at east end. Stables: one and 2 storeys, 2 parallel ranges. Main section of 3 wide bays: stable and hayloft over; round.-arched entrance with voussoirs. Interior has original boxes. Lower range similar, but obscured by later extensions. Low-pitched roofs, hipped on main range, have corniced chimneys. Lodge attached to east of main range: similar materials; once storey, 2 bays. Gabled porch in end to drive has 3-panel door under elliptical hood on inner return; and bracketed oriel under gable. Sash windows with late C19 glazing bars have flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills. Low-pitched roof with corniced central chimney.'

House, later bishop's house and chapel, now public house. 1831 by John Dobson for
Thomas Crawhall; chapel added 1887. Ashlar with plinth; rendered ashlar and
coursed squared sandstone left wing; Welsh slate roof to chapel. Main house roof
not visible, other roofs graduated Lakeland slate and Welsh slate. Main house:
irregular plan, castle style. 2 high storeys, scattered fenestration. Projecting
third bay contains double panelled door in Tudor arch. Windows of 2, 3 and 4
lights, some blind, with chamfered stone mullions and transoms and drip moulds.
Battlemented parapet to roof with central turret. Left wing: 2 storeys, 8 bays
and 3-bay house at left in plain style; sash windows and blind windows; hipped
roofs. Former chapel by W.S. Hicks after 1882 at rear in Perpendicular style has 4 bays and linking bay with oriel window. Interior shows closed-string stair with barley-sugar balustrade, grip handrail and newels with pendants. Library has Jacobean-style panelling and ceiling. Panelled ceilings with Tudor bosses in other ground floor rooms; marble chimney pieces. Historical note: donated in 1881 by J.W. Pease, the Quaker banker, to the Diocese of Newcastle created in 1882. The previous building on the site, the home of the Shafto family; incorporated a tower house. Sources: W.H.Knowles "Benwell Tower, Newcastle" Archaeologia Aeliana series 2 vol. XIX, pp 88-98; W.S.F. Pickering (ed.) A Social History of the Diocese of Newcastle 1882-1982 1982, pp 47-49. Once the home of the Shafto family, rebuilt in C19 by John Dobson and then the official residence of the Bishops of Newcastle until World War II. The building became a training centre for the Durham and Northumberland Fire and Rescue Brigade and Mines Rescue Service until 1970. Benwell Towers then turned into a nightclub and in 1973 a hotel. The name changed from the Silver Lady to The Mitre in 1980 and was a public house until 1989 when the BBC took tenancy on the buildings for the TV series Byker Grove until 2006. 2006-2010 derelict. The extant buildings are the 4th incarnation of Benwell Tower each built on the same footprint as the last. Tunnels exist beneath the building, within the vaulted cellars. These may date to the early 16th century. The building was recorded by ARS in 2010 ahead of proposed re-development of the structure.

This building was listed Grade II in 1971 with the following description:
'Artillery barracks officers' mess; now student accommodation. 1804-06, by James Wyatt, Surveyor General to the Ordnance Board, converted c1994. English bond brick with brown sandstone dressings, brick ridge stacks and slate hipped valley roof. Late Georgian style. Single-depth plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and basement; 7-window range. Symmetrical front with ashlar basement and plinth, first-floor cill band and eaves frieze and cornice, with the 1-window end sections set forward; central entrance has Tuscan columns to entablature blocks with Royal Artillery shields and an open pediment, in front of a round-arched doorway on pilasters with a radial fanlight and late C20 6-panel door. Round-arched late C20 ground-floor horned 6/6-pane sashes, the end ones set within matching arched recesses, and segmental-arched first-floor horned 2/2-pane sashes; matching rear has a central round-arched stair light over the entrance which cuts through the cill band. 3-bay returns have openings at the front, the outer ones blind, and the middle ground-floor window set within a round-arched recess. INTERIOR: Completely rebuilt c1994. HISTORY: The Ordnance Board were responsible during the Napoleonic War for Artillery barracks. One of the earliest surviving officers' messes in the country, the only example of a stone barracks from this period, and with the sergeants' mess and guard houses (qqv) a small part of the former Fenham Artillery Barracks. (Archaeologia Aeliana, 5th series: Breihan J: Army Barracks in the NE in the Era of the French Revolution: 1990-: 171).'

This sculpture was listed Grade II in 1987 with the following description:
'Bust on pedestal. Dated 1905. Bronze bust of Alderman Sir Chas. F. Hamond (sic) JP.DL. on tapered sandstone pedestral inscribed with name. ERECTED/13 FEB 1905/ TO/COMMEMORATE/HIS SERVICE/IN OBTAINING/THIS PARK/IN/1872/. A laurel wreath below; and below that PALMAM CU MERUIT FERAT. Bust damaged at time of survey.' {1}.
The bust was stolen c.1990.

Pumping engine chimney. 1904 for Newcastle and Gateshead Water Co., consulting engineer Charles Hawksley, resident engineer A.L. Forster. Flemish bond brick with ashlar dressings. Octagonal; classical treatment. Tall panelled base with
rounded moulding to plinth; top band and cornice. Source: R.W. Rennison Water to Tyneside Newcastle 1979 pp 200-01.
Included for landmark value.

R.C. parish church. 1868-69 by A.M. Dunn; at the expense of Richard Lamb of West Denton. Flemish bond white brick with polychrome dressings; rear (north) red brick; Welsh slate roof. Western 3-sided apse to chancel; south tower; 5-bay nave with south porch. Shouldered lintel to blocked ritual west door in porch: Shouldered lintel to inserted west door with broach-stopped rebate to surround. Nook shafts to paired west lancets; cinquefoil above has drip mould with ball-flower stops. Carved gables to 2 west buttresses. 2-centred-arched windows in buttressed nave with sill string and continuous impost band: Lombard frieze above and around apse; 2-stage tower, blind below, has upper wide 2-centred-arched belfry openings under Lombard frieze with corner gargoyles, and steeply-pitched hipped roof with iron ridge finial. The interior (not listed) is painted brick with a panelled dado. The chancel and sanctuary are narrower than the nave and are separated from it by a brick chancel arch. Corbelled wall posts support roof trusses, the nave ceiled at first purlin with diagonally-boarded panels and central ventilation holes, the sanctuary with full-height rafters and polygonal apse with stencil decoration on ribs. The windows have pointed arched tops, except for those in the sanctuary, which have high-quality stained glass in geometrical patterns, and the ritual west windows, which have heraldic motifs. There is a full-width glazed screen to ritual west entrance.

Parish church. 1836-37; by Benjamin Green. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar
plinth, quoins and dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. Aligned
north-south; nave with ritual north porch and south vestry and lower, set-back
sanctuary. Early English style. High pointed arch to boarded door in steeply-
gabled porch; 3-light east window, lancets in sanctuary and east nave, 2-light
windows in nave; wide chamfered buttress, dividing west lancets, beneath bell-
cote. Low-pitched roof. Interior: plaster, sloping sills to windows; queen-post
roof with pendants. Blind high pointed west arch; high pointed moulded arches
to doors; moulded arch to sanctuary, one step above chancel, which is paved
with Caithness flags as Second World War memorial. Historical note: said to be
aligned north-south to avoid disused pit shaft on east.

Council offices. 1910 by E. Cratney for Newburn Urban District Council. English bond brick with ashlar quoins and dressings; graduated Lakeland slate roof with lead-covered ventilator and pediment. L-plan. Baroque style. Basement, 2 storeys and attic; 5 by 3 bays and 9 in left return. Central 4-panelled double door and overlight with diagonal glazing bars in stone Ionic doorcase with open and broken segmental pediment containing tall cartouche with cipher of Newburn Urban District Council. Wreath carving around double-keystoned architrave of window over door; garlands flank bracketed keystone of roundel in open segmental pediment above. Gauged brick flat arches, moulded stone sills and brick aprons to windows, all sashes with glazing bars; narrow, spaced stone quoins from ground floor band to modillioned eaves cornice. Hipped roof has domed and corniced square ventilator with pilasters; 2 corbelled-out end brick chimneys with gabled buttresses; 3 rear chimneys. Hipped roof also to 4 rear bays {1}. Newburn was part of the County of Northumberland until Newburn Urban District Council was formed on 2nd March 1893. The UDC was 1882 hectares in size and consisted of the townships of Newburn, Newburn Hall, Denton, Sugley, Throckley and Walbottle. In 1974 when the now disbanded county of Tyne and Wear was created, the district council became part of Newcastle City.

An assortment of shops of various styles and sizes. Many of these buildings were originally part of Robinson's Brewery (HER 1600), converted into shops and offices when the brewery closed down. There are some modern infill developments on this street and a series of unfortunate modern shop fronts and signs. In the 1940s the first shop was the office of Sunderland District Bus Company. The second was a sweet shop owned by Mrs Steele. The third was Dimambro's Ice Cream Parlour. The shop was divided into cubicles each with a table and bench seats. Houghton actually had 3 ice cream parlours.