Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition.

The asylum at Gallowgate was funded by a public subscription established in 1765 to provide a joint institution for Newcastle, Northumberland and Durham. The site was obtained from the mayor and council. The original asylum, which opened in 1767, was designed by William Newton (who rebuilt the north front of the Guildhall with David Stephenson in 1796). Though it predates the County Asylums Act 1808, this was one of the earliest "public" asylums catering to those patients who might otherwise end up in prisons or workhouses. However, rapidly, overcrowding and other issues, as well as design flaws in the initial building led to issues. Writing in 1826, Mackenzie described it as "frequently crowded to excess, and little attention was paid to free ventilation and cleanliness. The chains, iron bars, and dungeon-like cells, presented to the unhappy inmates all the irritating and melancholy characteristics of a prison, and, at the same time, were highly injurious to their health and lives."

Prior to 1824, the responsibility for the Gallowgate asylum was passed to the Corporation who appointed Noel Thomas Smith as custodian. Smith proposed extensive renovations drawn up by John Dobson which were agreed with the Corporation on the proviso that the interest from the required funding was paid as rent. Dobson radically altered the original design provided ventilated cells with enclosed walkways as well as differing quality of accommodation divided by gender and into three classes, though all were provided with access to a day-room, warmed gallery, water-closet, warm, cold, and shower baths. Class 1 males were provided with an airing-ground (1000 square yard) and the corresponding wing for class 1 females was also improved and enlarged. The class 2 males were in the main body of the building with an exercise yard (650 square yards) and class 3 males were on the chamber floor. Class 2 females were contained in the upper rooms of the projecting wings and class 3 females had apartments in the front of the building. The doors contained proper ventilation with lowered windows to enable outward views and double boarded floors for sound proofing. On the ground-floor was a kitchen, bake-house, wash-house, a yard, offices, matron's room and physician's room. The asylum was largely funded by the parishes with additional luxuries such as private sitting rooms paid for by patients' families. Smith also limited the number of patients and increased staffing; going from a staff of four attending between 90 and 100 patients to a staff of nine attending up to 80 patients.

Despite this, the asylum closed in 1867 due to overcrowding; the site was modified in the late 19th century for industrial use but the Dobson boundary walls survive as the boundary walls of the People's Kitchen on Bath Lane, behind the tyre garage on St. James Boulevard and in the plot south of Heber Street. All of these walls have been archaeologically recorded though they are partially obscured by the remains of a 19th century building on the adjoining plot. Evaluation trenching in 2017 and 2018 recorded buried sandstone walls and mortar floors of the asylum. Further excavation in 2023 found that the site had been landscaped when the asylum was built.

Former gardens of asylum (HER 6868) sold to 3rd Northumberland Artillery regiment who built a large Drill Hall and gym in 1869. The hall was open plan at ground floor level and was extended in 1875. In 1890 the hall was acquired by chemist John MacKay and converted to a warehouse and factory of aerated mineral water. This was enlarged in 1907-1910. Mackay and Co were still producing water at Corporation Street until after 1964. The building was demolished in the 1990s.

Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition as meeting house for Plymouth Brethren. Later a Christian Science church (Second Church of Christ Scientist).
This building was listed Grade II in 1992 with the following description:
'Non-conformist church.1878. By Austin Johnson and Hicks. Timber framed, and brick with brick nogging and large plain tile roof. Gabled street front has high brick plinth and recessed central doorway with three-light glazing bar overlight. Either side are single, large, three-light cross casements, all with glazing bars except the three lower lights of the left windows. Above a continuous row of eight glazing bar windows, with immediately above a further row of six glazing bar windows. In the top gable a single square louvred panel. Rear brick gable front has a later flat roofed extension on the ground floor, and above a large seven-light cross casement with leaded lights, and above a louvred panel.
Interior: entrance hall and shop with meeting room above, with exposed framing and arch braces supporting a timber panel ceiling. Main hall has four bay wooden arcades with narrow side aisles. Arcades each have three square wooden posts with arch braces, and above four four-light windows now blind. Northeast end has raised dais with reading desks behind an ornate wooden balustrade with beyond double six-panel doors.' {1}
Since 1994 the building has been The People's Kitchen, offering food, friendship and warmth to homeless people. The building is largely unaltered apart from the rear which has changed considerably. The Sunday School on the 1897 plan is no longer present and the yard at the back contains a single storey modern extension. The sandstone boundary wall behind the building is in good condition.

Shown but not named on Hutton's plan of Newcastle 1770. Southern building named on plan of 1827. The southern rectangular building was gone by 1860 when the larger building to the north is named as the baths. A public bath house in extensive gardens. The baths were built in 1781, opening on 1 May. They consisted of medicated vapour baths, tepid and enclosed cold baths and a large open bath for swimming. The water supply for the baths came from the Skinner Burn. The sinking of a mine shaft at Helmsley Main disrupted the water supply to the baths and parts of them were closed down in the 1820s. They were demolished by 1860. This was Newcastle's earliest baths. Entry would have only been for subscribers, at a typical price of a minimum of one shilling, which was too expensive for the majority of people. The baths were designed by William Craneson. They were commissioned by a Dr Hall and two surgeons, Henry Gibson and R Bryan Abbs. The baths were 'elegantly and completely fitted up' with separate cold plunge baths for ladies and gentlemen and a mineral water 'Buxton Bath'. The large open swimming bath was outside in the garden.

Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition. The Goad Insurance Plan of 1896 identifies this complex as C. Ives Cabinet Factory with a saw mill, workshop and timber yard. Along the Bath Lane frontage is the smithy and pattern shop of J. Tweedle Iron Works. Next door is J. Tweedle & Co's H.W. Showrooms and Works. To the rear of that are the timber sheds, timber yard and mortar mill of Weatherley (carpenter) and J. Wilkinson & Co.

Shown on 1st edition Ordnance Survey map.

Shown on 1st edition Ordnance Survey map.

Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition of 1879 and the second edition. At the turn of the twentieth century the engine works of Messrs Thompson, Boyd & Co. were bought by Albert Howard Higginbottom and converted to spirit and wine stores, beer and cider bottling plant, mineral water factory, laundry and bakery. The factory was damaged by fire in 1918.

Drill Hall for the 1st Northumberland Artillery Volunteers shown on Ordnance Survey second edition.