Former Temperance Hall. Thompson and Dunn for R. Flowers, c.1892. A pleasant brick front with stone window sills and surrounds with keystones, four modified dormers and an insensitively altered ground floor. Remarkably complete interior including two staircases, cast iron columns and large top-lit upper floor rooms with huge decorative roof beams. This was originally the ceiling of the two storey auction room which by 1910 had become a public auditorium in use as the Temperance Memorial Hall {1}. Ryder suggests it was built in the 1880s. Large hall set back from the street, brick, steel-framed. Four-storeyed front block with flush ashlar porch and embattled turrets. Large polygonal hall behind with galleries. In use as the Salvation Army City Temple from the 1880s until 2009. An important structure, now empty.

Cackett and Burns Dick for Robert Sinclair Tobacco Co. Ltd. 1913 and 1919. The 1913 building round the corner on Blenheim Street is a four storey brick warehouse and factory. It is plain except for three curved headed windows at first floor front, a stone cornice with heavy brackets and half finials at the corners, the company name in mosaic and the roof top metal rail. Unfortunately a three bay wide set of vehicular doors has been inserted. Business prospered and in 1919 the company built a huge new warehouse and offices onto Westgate Road, using the same architectural practice. This is altogether a more grand affair in white Portland stone, with two stone floors with pronounced joints, massive three storey square columns, and a heavy cornice topped by five square dormers. The style was vaguely Egyptian with stylised acanthus leaves at the top of the columns and decorative metal panels between. The building was converted into flats in the late 1980s. Another grand composition that deserves better recognition.

Designed by Septimus Oswald c.1872. This was a rebuild of the Old Black Bull Public House, which was first mentioned in 1822. Jacob Wilkinson took over the Black Bull around 1860. It had a small brewery which Thomas Dixon had run until 1857. The rebuild in 1872 included a shop as well as the public house. This arrangement lasted until 1893 when the shaving saloon closed and the space was added to the public house. Jacob Wilkinson improved the brewery. In 1901 the three-storey brewery building collapsed during foundation digging for the new Pavilion Theatre (demolished in 1992). The brewery had to be rebuilt and re-equipped. In 1903 Wilkinson held a dinner party for 100 people to celebrate its reopening. He died in 1905. The brewery was sold to John Fitzgerald. The pub was refurbished by Cackett and Burns Dick in 1906. Cackett and Burns Dick's refurbishment included a glamorous dome over the rear buffet. Extended by Pascal J Stienlet, 1937 including a second dome over a new lounge extension. It retained its old name until 1996, when it was refurbished with a new pub front and named The Bodega. The plain red brickwork is enlivened by stone window surrounds, decorative stone trim to the eaves, stone bands at both floors, and alternating red and cream stone over first floor windows, giving it an Eastern look. Unfortunately the original sash windows on first floor have been replaced. Contains two stained-glass domes in the ceiling. The building did carry an early Fire Insurance badge but this has been stolen. The 1996 pub front received a Newcastle City Council Lord Mayor's Award for good design in 1997.

Mid C19. Known as the Cumberland Inn, then from the 1880s the Brandy Vaults Public House. Closed 1963 and became the Garden City Chinese restaurant. The Brandy Vaults briefly reopened and then closed before becoming Tilleys in 1991 incorporating more of the old Tyne Buffet next door. Like the rest of Thornton Street, these plain brick houses with unusually wide sash windows, were also refurbished in the 1980s by the Tyne Theatre Company as accommodation for players and as a Public House, introducing the name Tilley's to commemorate Vesta Tilley (1864-1952) the greatest of the Music Hall male impersonators.

Lamb and Armstrong for Richard Charlton, bonded warehouseman, c.1884. Built as offices and bond warehouse, it sports a short stubby corner tower, Tudor chimneys, and a large eaves gable to Waterloo Street. The materials are grey granite and sandstone, used to face the ground floor and decorate elsewhere, and bands of yellow brickwork. A distinctive little building with an interesting personality. The remains of a 19th century Jewish Cemetery lie land-locked behind the building (HER 5093).

CWS Drapery Warehouse and offices by CWS architect W G Townsend Grey, 1933 (McCombie says 1935). A fine exercise in decorative brickwork which deserves to be better recognised. Newcastle and Manchester were the two main development centres of the CWS in the 19th century and early C20. Fortunately this property and Blandford House in Blandford Street, the CWS regional HQ in 1899, both survive to bear witness to Newcastle's Co-operative heritage. Brick bays and buttresses give a very strong vertical emphasis, relieved by decorative metal panels in bands below the windows. Keen eyesight is needed to enjoy the ingenious brick decorations and green tiled roof. Later used as offices on upper floors, bars and studio cinema (from 1973 to 1983) on ground and basement floors. Being converted again in 2004. McCombie - handsome Art Deco brick building with jazzy railings, now Centralofts. Remodelled by Napper with a new glazed and balconied west front.

Early C20. Rebuild of the old North British Public House with offices above. The upper floors are plain under a heavy eaves cornice with a single keystone over each first floor window. The Edwardian pub front is something else. On Nos. 29-31 the original remains with solid columns, chunky glazing bars and some early leaded glass. Below the windows the stones have been curved to provide a solid base to hold it all up. Nos. 33-35 which were not originally part of the North British, fortunately has a period shop front that complements the original pub front next door. The jolly (but tasteful) colours unify the two properties and add a welcome brightness to this quiet corner of Pink Lane. Became Raffles and then Rafferty's in the 1990s.

Probably mid C19. In 1876 the Asterley's Hotel expanded on this site and changed its name to the Forth. In 1898 the Forth was bought by Allsopp's, later Ind Coope then Tetleys. Its landlord in 1921-27 was Tommy Burns, Canadian boxer. Adjacent houses in Forth Lane and off Pink Lane have been absorbed. Feature end gable to Bewick Street with a neat colour scheme of cream and red. Relatively free from the clutter of promotional signs and still has its late 19th century window surrounds on the ground floor.

William Glover for Henry Angus & Co. c.1885. Henry Angus was a well known Newcastle Coach Builder and these premises were built to provide shops for let, one floor of show rooms for the products of the coach-building business and three floors of warehousing and workshops. It is a handsome brick building with slightly curved window heads and stone mouldings over each window in a continuous trim across the face of each floor. On the gable end is a grand ornamental chimney built in tiers of brickwork down the building, with decorative stepped cornicing. The original shop surrounds still survive. The whole has a subtlety unusual in industrial premises of this period. Turners, the long established Newcastle photographic firm, developed their business empire from here in the 1960s and 70s. Now offices.

Oliver and Leeson for William R Pape, c.1893. Converted to a hotel by J Oswald & Sons, c.1926. An unusual curved building following the exact boundaries of the site. William Pape was a gunsmith. He built these premises after his selling his property Nos. 23-29 Collingwood Street to the Sun Insurance Company (listed grade 2). In his new premises he had five floors of offices and workshops over shops, in a decorative stone structure with second floor balconies and his name carved into the stone at eaves level. The property was converted into the Sun Temperance Hotel in 1926. The balconies on the Pink Lane side became the basis of a fire escape system which served all floors. Building now used as offices with Gregg's (42 Neville Street) and GS Studios at ground floor. Unusual to find a stone building in Newcastle that has not been cleaned.