Almshouses, now storage rooms and house above. Dated 1787 on plaque. English
garden wall bond brick with painted ground floor and ashlar dressings. Welsh
slate roof. 2 storeys, 5 bays. 5-panelled doors with 3-paned overlights
(except for radial glazing bars to that on right) in bays 2, 3 and 5. Wedge
stone lintels to sashes with glazing bars; projecting stone sills on first
floor; ground floor sill band. Central plaque commemorates building in 1787
and names officers for that year. LISTED GRADE 2*

School, now offices. Dated 1753 on plaque on rear link to Banqueting Hall.
Painted brick; concrete tiled roof. 3 storeys, 5 windows and one further on
top floor above adjacent building. Ground floor, partly obscured by raised
yard level, has central double door with 6 beaded panels under deep
elliptical hood on brackets. 2 ground floor windows and five on each top
floor are sashes with glazing bars, those on first floor with segmental
brick heads and wide boxes; similar sashes under soldier course lintels on
second floor. 2-brick-deep floor bands. Roof has brick-coped end gables;
2 tall end chimneys, that at left stepped. Wall attached to left end
enclosing yard has low-chamfered coping, all painted; spear-headed railings
and gates with half-height dog bars have urn finials and rear stays to
principals. LISTED GRADE 2* Building recording and watching brief carried out in 2012 by The Archaeological Practice Ltd. Established that the medieval or very early modern fabric extends into the east end of the building and that possibly the whole ground floor of the building is a pre-1753 structure. Features relating to the 18th century fireplace arrangements at the west end of the ground floor were also recorded, though not enough was exposed to make a full interpretation.

Barbican. Mid C13. Coursed squared sandstone wall, with chamfered base, on south
side of road from former north gate of castle to Black Gate, added in C13. See
also under Heron Pit. Sources: Barbara Harbottle 'The Castle of Newcastle upon
Tyne: excavations 1973-79' Chateau Gaillard IX-X 1982. LISTED GRADE 1 AND SCHEDULED ANCIENT MONUMENT

Posts and rails. Cast and wrought iron. Early Cl9. 5:2:2:2:2 posts, 11 in
all, fluted and tapering, support 5 handrails which are circular in section and
have tapered downward-spiralled ends. LISTED GRADE 2

Walls and railings. Late C18. Dwarf brick walls with round-topped stone coping; Spear-
and-loop heads to railings, principals with urn finials. Railings run around
north and east sides of central garden. Some sections replaced on new line;
some renewed. LISTED GRADE 2

5 houses, now 4: offices and workshops. 1770 by William Newton. English bond
brick with plinth and ashlar dressings; Welsh slate mansard roof with rendered
gable to No. 3 at right. 3 storeys (except No. 3, 4 storeys); attics to No. 3.
3:5:4:3 bays. End houses project slightly. No. 3 has steps up to 4-panelled door
in stone surround; and inserted door at left. No. 5 has a 6-panelled door in
wide Tuscan surround; No. 6 a pedimented Tuscan doorcase with number on cartouche;
No. 8 a 6-panelled door in plain reveal. Gauged brick flat arches to plain
sashes, projecting stone sills to second floor and to third floor at No. 3;
bands at ground and first floor sills and first floor level. Sashes renewed
except in No. 5. Chimneys at rear and on ridge between Nos. 5 and 6. Interiors:
No. 4 has boarded dado in entrance hall; ramped narrow handrail on plain balustrade
with turned newels; some architraves. No. 6 has deep panelled reveal to one door
on first floor, renewed staircase; No. 8 has entrance hall arch; hardboard-
covered balustrade and ramped handrail; architraves. Interior of No. 3 not
inspected. No. 5 has basement opened up circa 1980. LISTED GRADE 2

Fountain. Late C17. Sandstone ashlar. Octagonal. Cyma-moulded plinth to
high arcaded pedestal, with impost string, supporting wide fountain with
rounded coping on modillioned cornice. LISTED GRADE 2

This building was listed Grade II in 1987 with the following description:
'House, now offices. Circa 1780. Brick, rough-rendered with left quoins; right return gable peak tumbled-in; Welsh slate roof; 2 brick chimneys on central front ridge; later right end chimney with ashlar string and cornice. 2 storeys, 5 bays, the central wider. Central double door, with over-and side-lights, in flat Tuscan doorcase with prominent cornice. Projecting stone sills to ground floor sashes, the upper parts late C19, the lower renewed; first floor sashes with glazing bars; floor and sill band. Modillioned eaves cornice.' {1}.
The building originally had a formal garden to the rear and a series of smaller beds to the front. The construction of the railway in the 1850s marked a change in the area from high status domestic occupation to trade and industry. In 1859 the house had been partially demolished and much of the rear garden replaced with a large rectangular building possibly a warehouse. By 1871 the property had become a small manufacturing outlet. Shortly afterwards the building was bought by R Robinsons & Co Printers and stationery manufacturer who held the building until 1961 when it was sold to Alfred Bell Ltd.. The name Friar House is a modern invention. In 2012 The Archaeological Practice Ltd maintained a watching brief during groundworks for the conversion of the building to a hotel and further building recording during internal works (the building was originally recorded in 2008 and assessed in 2011 by Archaeo-Environment Ltd.). During these works it was found that the house was built upon the foundations of an earlier building, constructed in sandstone. LISTED GRADE 2

Shops and houses, now shops and offices. Circa 1837, probably by John Wardle,
for Richard Grainger. 4 storeys, 28 houses of 3 bays each, arranged with breaks
forward and back to follow curve, and one curved bay at each end: 84 bays in
all. Sandstone ashlar, some painted; roof not visible. Ground floor C2O shops.
Upper floors have sash windows, some with glazing bars and some blocked, in
plain reveals; second floor has aprons and slightly projecting sills. Second
floor band and prominent cornice. Top cornice. No. 64 has full-width first
floor lunette inserted; Nos. 60-64 have added mansards. LISTED GRADE 2

R.C. presbytery. Circa 1860 by E.W. Pugin; additions 1869 by A.M. Dunn. Brick
with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roofs. Irregular plan with right wing
breaking forward through 45°. Tudor style. 2 storeys, 3 bays; lower 2-storey
3-bay link to Cathedral vestry at left. Main block has one-storey canted porch,
with central door in Tudor-arched surround, and stone surrounds to windows in angles.
Gabled bay at left with one window on each floor, and square stair turret with
lancets under parapet at right. Lancet and 7-light windows above porch. Wing
breaking forward has front chimney stack with offsets, flanked by arched stone
windows. Steeply-pitched roofs, hipped to main block and link, have tall polygonal
chimneys with ashlar strings and cornices. LISTED GRADE 2