John Johnstone for J G Youall, c.1870. Another gateway building of shops, offices and hotel. Survives intact except for the modern ground floor. Even the fine stonework on the five huge chimney stacks remains. Similar to Nos. 64-66 (HER 6463). Over-large arcaded first floor and pilastered top floor. Splendid gable, dormers and balustrades all survive. This is the third major building by Johnstone in a fairly small area (the others are Royal Court Yard (HER 6454) and No. 30 Grainger Street (Listed grade 2)). In 2013 this Boots the Chemist.

John Adams for George Handyside, c.1871. This corner is a gateway building into Grainger Street West and a link into the Bigg Market. A busy decorative stone building with two arched and pilastered stone façade, large ornamented gable to the corner and smaller fancy dormers to the flanks, all linked by a stone balustrade along the edge of the roof. Unfortunately the dormers and balustrades have been removed and the four double-windowed dormers have been replaced by plain lead boxes. Modern ground floor (Pizza Hut) and painted stonework above.

R K Freeman and Robins for Mr Swanson, c.1889. The Crown and Thistle, described in 1831 as one of Newcastle's "Principal Commercial Inns" was demolished in 1889 for a new hotel, licensed restaurant and buffet, to be called the Collingwood Restaurant. The restaurant closed in 1926 but is now again a licensed premises called the Groat House. It has a high ground floor and voluptuous classical detail, topped with a large gable dormer flanked by urn finials. Little has changed except for the loss of some panel details and the central door. On 1896 map it is called the Collingwood Restaurant {1}.This stone building was constructed in 1889 by R K Freeman and Robins for Mr Swanson. It was commissioned as the ‘Collingwood Restaurant’, a hotel, licensed restaurant and buffet, and was built on a site that had a long history of alcohol retailing. In order to build the Collingwood Restaurant the ‘Crown and Thistle’ was demolished. This pub had been described in 1831 as one of Newcastle’s ‘principal commercial inns’. The Collingwood Restaurant closed in 1926. The five-storey building has five large windows per floor. The three central windows on the second floor are capped with decorative voussoirs and broken pediments {3}. In 2013 this is Perdu with offices above, in 2022 called Swarleys.

Lamb and Armstrong c.1890 (possibly earlier), refaced in 1927. Thomas Bewick, artist and engraver, was a member of (Richard) Swarley's Club, a debating society that used to meet here in the late 18th century. From 1846 to the early 1860s John Dunn was licensee and brewer here. In 1889 the rear of the premises collapsed, hence the rebuild in 1889-90. Pearson - in the refit the pub had a single long bar which curved in towards the back fitting near the rear of the bar to give more space to the back bar. A luncheon bar was screened off at the far end of the pub. Soon after the modernisation, the tenancy was taken over by the Emmerson family, brewers and wine and spirit merchants. In 1926 W B Reid bought the property for £8,500. The 1927 facelift created a plain elevation with a raised pattern of panels between the windows and an overall decorative framing. The interior was unchanged. In the 1950s Newcastle Breweries became the owners. The interior has since been completely renewed but some interesting and colourful 1930s-style stained glass can be seen in the upper floors facing Black Boy Yard. The pub has had several changes of name in the last twenty years from the Groat Bar to the Coffy Johnny and then the Blackie Boy - it still carries two different names on its fascias.

Late 18th century or early C19. Shop surround by Benjamin Simpson, c.1892 for Oliver and Co. Another early building straddling a burgage plot and lane entrance (Ridley Court). Upper floor windows have fine glazing bars and no horns at the bottom edges of the upper sashes, so could be original. McCombie - c1800, wide, painted brick with stone sills and lintels. The ground floor is a modern infill in Simpson's 1892 frame. Bennison - The bar was the Lord Chancellor in 1896, possibly to commemorate Lord Eldon who was appointed Lord Chancellor in 1801. It was extensively remodelled in 1928 and again in 1950. In 1961 it was taken over by Hammond's. Pearson - a pre-1892 floor plan of the Lord Chancellor survives in Tyne and Wear Archives. At this time it was a long and narrow pub with a front bar, a rear select bar and two sitting rooms. It was separated from the White Horse Inn by Ridley Court. By at least the early 1870s the Lord Chancellor was owned by Elizabeth Davison from Glasgow. In the early 1880s its tenants were Mr and Mrs Elsbury. In 1892 S Oliver & Co, wine and spirit merchants, took over and immediately submitted plans to the Town Improvement Committee for alterations and enlargements. They appointed Benjamin E Simpson to draw up their plans. Simpson's plans for the Lord Chancellor included a façade with a door either side of a long window, which was split into two by a central support and had decorative panelling below it. The interior was transformed into a complex arrangement of rooms and screens. There were still four separate drinking areas, but now all had direct access to the bar in the centre of the building. The rear select bar was divided by screens into three. Such 'snob screens' were often very decorative with carved wood and engraved glass. This layout was an innovation on Tyneside where the typical bar tended to be a long room with a single counter and another room to the rear. Compartmented pubs were fashionable in London from the 1880s. Oliver & Co. left in 1896 and George White & Co, wine and spirit merchants, took over. They kept the Lord Chancellor until 1913. The Vinycomb family of Newcastle and Belfast had bought the freehold in 1906. In 1913 James Calder & Co, of the Shore Brewery in Alloa took out a lease on the pub. They installed local brewers Robinson & Anderson as tenants. They presumably sold their beer and Calder's. In 1928 the screens and counter were demolished and an extension called the public bar was built. The fine Victorian counter in the select bar was removed and replaced by a semi-oval counter in an L-shaped room. This floor plan survived until after the war. In 1948 Robinson & Anderson were taken over by Hammond's United Breweries Ltd from Bradford. In 1950 the entire pub was remodelled. There was a small central counter in a large open room, with a buffet bar to the rear. The only remaining vestige of Simpson's 1892 design was the curved window seat fronting onto Groat Market. In 1959 Hammond's became part of Northern Breweries Ltd. In 1989 Macey's has an interior quite different to all the previous designs. Only the bar counter, set at right angles to the street, is reminiscent of the pre-1892 design. The interior has been rebuilt at least four times, each time to attract more customers. In 1985 the Lord Chancellor became Macey's Wine Bar. Later called Pop! In 2013 it's called Rewind.

Mid to late 18th century with 19th century and 20th century alterations. In 2013 No. 35 is Ameens, 35-37 is Streetwise and Speedy Gonzales.

18th century with considerable 19th century and 20th century alterations. Six properties whose superficial appearance belies their age. Some of what has been found behind their facades is older than the apparent age of the frontages themselves. No. 43 has four attractive columns (possibly of 1928) across diminishing sized windows on first and second floor. The ground floor is modern. The next one down has an early Victorian appearance but was known to have been the Princess Restaurant Public House in 1889 and the Princess Public House up to 1956. In 1882 old houses and Beer Houses stood on this site. Maybe some of their features and materials were recycled into the present building. Benjamin Simpson, architect of the Half Moon Public House of 1902-5 opposite, altered the dining room and toilets for the Princess Restaurant in the 1880s. More research needed. McCombie - No. 41 is a painted brick early 19th century front, gables perhaps 17th century. In 2013 No. 39 is the Athena Takeaway, No. 39A is Ticino, No. 39B is the Golden Bengal Restaurant, No. 43 is William Hill Bookmakers.

Edward Shewbrooks, 1897. An attractive little hidden gem with rather late Queen Anne style details of sunbursts over the windows and very pronounced moulded stone trimmings against a vivid red brick. The shop front is original but is not Queen Anne style. Originally built as shops and restaurant, it was refurbished and converted to restaurant, offices and residential in 1997.

Arthur B. Gibson for Messrs Gibson-Pybus, c.1885. Another late Victorian redevelopment for a public house and offices. Bell & Taylor, wine merchants, opened the Vine Public House in 1901 with 'a long bar rounded off by an exceedingly handsome buffet'. Behind the bar and with a separate street entrance was a circular smoking room and a sitting room. In 1918 Bass bought the pub. It closed in 1954. Built in variegated red brick and terracotta pottery decorations with some stone. Fairly plain, almost industrial in character, with two large gables to the street. These were origianlly taller with fancy cappings and finials but this whole decorative section has been removed from both gables. A unflattering 20th century ground floor treatment {1}. This was the Newcastle Headquarters of George Bell, brewers agent from Richmond, and Henry Taylor, wine merchant from Low Fell. The building contained offices, cellarage and bottling stores. The public bar, buffet, smoke room and select sitting room was named The Vine by Bell & Taylor. In 1918 Bass bought out Bell and Taylor. The pub survived until 1954 then became a camera shop and camping equipment shop. Pearson - In 1885 Arthur Gibson, local architect drew up plans for a rebuild in Queen Anne revival with a white brick elevation and red brick window surrounds and three ball finials on the gable. What was built was slightly simplified - no ball finials, no open top pediments on the gables and the elevation was in pale red brick, not white. The owners were a firm of solicitors. The upper façade of the pub remains almost unchanged but all the original interior has gone. By 1901 the pub changed hands to Bell & taylor, wine and spirit merchants. They called in Joseph Oswald & Son to redesign the front bars in Dec 1901 and the rear buffet in April 1908. The quality and quantity of decoration in the design of the five bars rivalled Benjamin Simpson's work. The buffet fronting onto Pudding Chare had even more carved pitchpine and decorated glass, a semi-circular bar and coffered ceiling. The back bar featured fluted ionic pilasters topped with a clock in which the numbers were replaced with the letters of the licensee's name (Bell & Taylor). In 1954 the front bar and buffet were taken out and a shop installed. In 2013 it is Adventure at Freemans with offices above.

Built as the Earl Grey Public House, this is another burgage plot which was redeveloped at the end of the nineteenth century. Owned by Simpson the brewer until 1889 when it was bought by L Pearson & Co. boot manufacturers who ran the shop next door. Rebuilding by William Hope for Lazenby Pearson Ltd, 1897. The modernisation added a corner snug into the front bar and a grill room at the rear. There were two select rooms upstairs, one for ladies, one for gentlemen. In 1892 Emmersons took over the tenancy. In 1900 the licence was allowed to lapse. An elaborate composition in carved stone with two storey bays with stone roofs, stubby columns, cherubs and swags. Most of the ground floor is modern and incongruous, as is the ugly lift housing on the roof. Originally the property was built with a tall central gable with two attic windows and more elaborate decoration. In 1919 Charles E Errington, architect removed this and replaced it with the existing balustrade with dormers behind to create more usable space in the roof. In 2013 the ground floor is Ali Basha Grill House with offices above.