Bigg Market, Golden Lion Inn. South side of Bigg Market. Possibly Elizabethan in origin. First and second floors had two rows of windows each. Those on the first floor were sashes. In between these were signs. Jetty beneath the second floor. Entrance door on ground floor (second bay from left). Large rounded window in third bay. First and fourth bays had large windows. Timber, 3 storeys. Demolished in 1882. Described as 'a noted resort of carriers, farmers and country people who came into the town to sell their produce'. A long yard extended to the rear of Rosemary Lane providing stabling for the many carrier who were put up in the house. At the entrance was a well worn stone mount.

Cloth Market, Humbles Basket Shop
Free standing “cottage” to the south of the Bigg Market in the fork between the Cloth Market and Groat Market. Two storeys. Steeply pitched roof. Entrance on east to ground floor shop. North face has two large windows with central wide doorway that is filled with baskets for sale. First floor has jetties on all sides and on north face a small central window and the remains of sills either side. In the photograph you can see the construction of the new town hall behind the basket shop (c.1858-60).
Timber, 2 storeys

Sandhill, Beehive Inn. In passage off Sandhill. Arched entrances and windows. Stone. The Beehive Inn was on the site of Derwentwater Chambers, and was owned by Sir Arthur M. Sutherland. In the early 19th century the proprietor of the building, gave the fireplace, (the mantel was said to bear the date of 1599 but the overmantel was early C17 in date), to the Mansion House where it was set up in the oak room. When the Mansion House was dismantled it was given to the Society of Antiquaries and set up in the Castle Keep. The carving of the central panel is said to represent the apotheosis of King James I, who died in 1625. On the panel on the south side is Fortune with a horn of plenty, and on the other side a female figure holding two masks back to back. The fire surround was donated to Beamish Museum in December 1987.

The Swirle, Half Moon Inn
Built circa 1700. Demolished circa 1943. Three storeys, four dormer gables with windows and convex-concave faces. Large sash windows on first floor and smaller windows on second floor.

Pilgrim Street, Nos. 177-183, Bird in the Bush Public House
Drawing by WH Knowles 1885 with notes. Grand gable end with diamond design in the bricks above the gable window. Two entrances at street level to ground floor and a third near entrance at back lane. Access gained via stone steps to first floor.
Brick, 4 storeys
NCL 41097 {1}. William Sill & Co. were brewing in the Bird-in-Bush Yard in the mid 1840s. In the 1850s Martin Bell, from the Grey Horse Inn on the Quayside, took over. By 1857 Robert Oxley & Co. were owners and were advertising the premises for rent and the two horses for sale. In 1860 Laurence Mackey was tenant of the brewery at this pub. In the mid 1870s Thomas Davison took over, then Laurence Davison. Brewing ceased around 1879 and the pub closed in 1890 {Bennison 1995}.

Silver Street, Hen and Chicken Public House
Drawing by WH Knowles 1884 of possibly the back of the Hen and Chicken Public House. Appears to be three stories. An L-shaped building with one plain gable and a larger gable with a convex bulge above the shoulder. The lean-to extension is of timber frame. The eaves have timber traces beneath them suggesting that this building is all or part timber.
NCL 41097

On the corner of Sandhill and Quayside. Timber, 5 storeys and 4 jetties. Third bay from left to right is projected at first and second floor levels, supported by pillars either side of the main door. Four windowless dormer gables. Decorative courses on bottom of second, third and fourth floor jetties - repeating horizontal rectangle and diamond design in relief. One of the few survivors of the fire of 1854. Demolished circa 1897. A photograph of 1897 has the name W. Thompson over the shopfront and the pub was 'To Let'. This was numbers 1 and 2 Quayside. The pub was formerly the Steam Boat Inn.

The Side, Burns Tavern. At the head of The Side. Two dominant gables on the front. Second floor windows differ beneath each gable. The right hand side window has a prominent elongated lintel. The bottom of the second floor has a jetty, and the ground floor two shop frontages. In a drawing by ?Matthew Reed in 1870, the left hand side of the building is known as Burns Tavern. In 1889 the name was changed to the Empress. The pub was located on the site of Admiral Lord Collingwood's birthplace. In the 1960s the Empress was converted into a 'modern eating house and cocktail bar'. On the menu were 'monkey gland steaks' at 12s 6d. The 1964 décor featured Japanese silk wall coverings, recessed wall seating, strip lighting and wall to wall carpets. The Empress was renovated again in 1983. It suffered fire damage in 1984. There is still [in 2013] an Empress Public House at St Nicholas Chambers on The Side (on site of the Meters Arms HER 15605).

Quayside, Menzies Hall
Timber building, 4 storeys or more, three jetties.

From 1720 until the late C19, the Baptist Church met in two buildings on Tuthill Stairs. Firstly in an Elizabethan timber framed 3 storey house. The house was owned by the Chapman family. Oswald Chapman was a merchant and a member of the Guild of Merchant Adventurers. He was Sheriff in 1545 and Mayor in 1558. His son, Henry, inherited the mansion in 1566. The house was very pleasantly situated overlooking the river and amongst gardens and orchards. Henry was Sheriff in 1581 and Mayor in 1586 and 1596. He was elected M.P. in 1597. A cupboard left to the City by a Miss Margaret Ranken-Lyle and held by the Laing Art Gallery [in 1967] bears the date 1583 and the initials 'H.C.'. It is thought that the date and initials came from the doorway leading from the oak chamber into an anteroom in the Tuthill Stairs mansion. The date probably represents some sort of extension or rebuild. The house was later given to Sir Thomas Riddle as a wedding gift by his father-in-law. In 1637 it became the home of Yelderd Alvey, High Church Vicar of Newcastle. In 1647 it passed to Edward Stote. In 1720 George West of Gateshead bought the house for £120 and it became a Baptist Chapel and schoolroom. On the ground floor, a large room with highly ornamented ceiling and wainscoted walls on which was a wooden tablet dated 1588, was converted into a meeting house. One of the pews featured two hands for holding the sword and mace of the Corporation. The upper floor was a dwelling house for the minister. On 2nd September 1769 two youths were baptised in a well surrounded by a brick wall near the chapel gates at the head of Tuthill Stairs. John Foster, probation minister, described the chapel in 1792. Then in 1797/8 a new Baptist chapel was built at the top of the Stairs in the orchard of the mansion, which cost £1300. The foundation stone was laid on 17 July 1797. The building opened on 19 February 1798. The building measured 55 x 44 feet. There was a covered baptistery in front of the pulpit and two vestries at the west end. In 1820 a gallery was added. In 1831 the Baptist chapel could hold 426 people. The Rev. Richard Pengilly was minister at that time. The chapel was in use as tenements in 1844. Thomas Oliver describes the entrance as being from the west. Two doors led to two passages into the ground floor of the chapel. The pulpit was against the east wall up 11 steps. The clerk's desk in front was up 3 steps. There were seats for 293 on the ground floor. Between the passages at the entrance door was a school room separated from the chapel by 4 sliding doors. At the east end was the vestry. A staircase of 15 steps lead to the gallery. 140 sittings in the gallery. The Elizabethan house was a tenement when it was demolished at the end of the C19. The house was drawn by WH Knowles in 1885. Dated C16-18th.