Built 1778-80 by William Newton for Ralph William Grey, to replaced a hall built on the same site in 1675. In the 1960s the National Coal Board gave the building to the local community to be used as the Miners' Welfare Club. The grounds were converted into recreational use, including a golf course, cricket pitch and bowling green. Replaced a 17th century house. Half-basement of rusticated sandstone, the other one and a half storeys smooth aslar. Stairs up to central doorway is of Venetian type favoured by Robert Adam. A fire in the 1960s spoilt the interior. The entrance hall still has a Venetian screen in front of the renewed staircase. The stair well is lit from above by a glass dome. LISTED GRADE 2

This is probably the oldest surviving large scale ferro concrete building in the country. It was constructed between 1897 and 1900 by T.G. Guerrite of L.G. Mouchel's firm for the Co-operative Wholesale Society (F.E.L. Harris of CWS, architect) using the Hennebique concrete system. The building was built on a ferro-concrete raft in places up to 6 foot thick due to the marshy silt ground conditions. The ferro-concrete raft achieved the uniform speading of the load and was calculated to resist the reaction of the ground at the rate of 2.5 tons per square foot. All the external and internal columns, floors, walls and roof were also constructed in ferro-concrete. The building had eight floors. A further storey with a barrel vault roof was added in 1901. LISTED GRADE 2

Once known as Dove's Warehouse and now a restaurant and public house (Quayside Bar), 35 The Close is the only example of a late C16 merchant's house with its own wharf remaining on the Close. It was listed Grade II* in 1976 with the following description:
'House and warehouses. Possibly Cl6 and later. Render; sandstone; brick with some ashlar dressings; timber frame; renewed pantiled roofs with some Welsh slate. 3 ranges, the rear originally on river edge but now facing onto artificial fill, around courtyard with enclosing wall on street front. High wide rendered wall, containing boarded double vehicle doors, links 2 rendered gables; tripartite sashes in left gable, wood-mullioned openings at right. Rendered house at rear of yard: 2 builds; left of 2 storeys, 3 bays with wide doorway at left, sash with glazing bars in centre and tripartite sash at right; upper-floor sash in wide box and Venetian window with broad glazing bars. Right build of 2 higher storeys and 2 bays projects slightly and has 6-panelled door in wooden architrave with bracketed cornice. First floor 2-light casement and renewed sash. Left range, of stone and brick in 2 builds, has 2 storeys, 5 and 5 bays. First build, attached to house, has varied openings with segmental brick arches, vehicle entrance at left and boarded door and overlight at right. Some sashes; upper wood-mullioned openings. Second build has first-floor 4-panelled door and sash windows. Slate roof hipped to street. Right range of stone has 2 storeys and attics, 8 irregular bays. Irregular stone arch to boarded ground-floor entrance in second bay; blocked arch in fifth bay has chamfered elliptical head. Stone steps to boarded door under stone lintel in third bay. Stacks of loading doors, the top under gable, in bays 4 and 7; crane above that in bay 7. Wood mullions to square openings with flat stone lintels on first floor; roof has 3 segmental-headed dormers. Interior of left range, first build, has arched tie beam and king-post roof, the ridge set in one side of broadened posts.'
The Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England) recorded the building in June 1986. Keith Falconer (Investigator Industrial Monuments) determined that the scarf joint between truss A and the floor beam pointed to a late medieval date, but pre-dating 1650.
The late medieval date was confirmed by a dendro date - estimated felling date 1514 (year spans tiebeams 1365-1513; outermost ring of principal rafter 1513; 5 timbers sampled). Published in Vernacular Architecture, Vol. 22, 1991, Tree-Ring Dates, p 41.
Grace McCombie (2009) says the building is U-plan with C19 gables. Facing east, the long wall of the east range and the exposed timber-framed gable of the south range. The L-shaped SE corner is the oldest, with a roof with kingposts set into arched tie-beams and a ridge set square in the side of jowls in the kingposts and braced lengthwise; trees felled 1514. This local roof type is also found in 14-16 Cloth Market and at Trinity House. Facing the courtyard, the east range has two builds, the south part older, both of brick but with some stone below or behind; the south range is rendered, timber framing above stone, and sashes with broad glazing bars in the first-floor Venetian window, an early C18 alteration; west range of reused stone with early ground-floor openings to the yard, and two stacks of loading bays. The ventilation dormers are of 1989. The west range projects at the south, and still has loading doors: at high tide goods could be transferred from boats. Now separated from the water by the promenade built in 1984-5. Dated C16th.
LISTED GRADE 2*

In origin an 18th century industrial building used as a tannery, a once flourishing Tyneside industry of which nothing now remains. Thick sandstone rubble walls with deep openings. Heavy cills, jambs and lintels. Welsh slate roof. Two storeys, and basement at lower end of hill slope, nine bays. 19th century glazing or boarded shutters. Some patching with brick at south end and on rear elevation to Mirk Lane. The remaining tannery buildings were recorded in 2005 ahead of demolition by Peter Ryder and The Archaeological Practice Ltd. The two ranges, formed a triangular block of properties, backed by the infilled arches of High Level Bridge - they were in very poor condition at the time of survey. The structures are shown on the 1860 OS plan as Greene's Tannery. Those on the Mirk Lane frontage were cut through by the 1845-1849 viaduct while those on Bankwell Lane post-date the viaduct and are probably 1850s in date. It appears that by 1873 the building may have been split as George Green & Sons are listed on Banwell Lane with G Redshaw operating on Mirk Lane. The tannery seems to have closed by the 1890s. The 4th edition OS plan lists the premisese as 'paper works' while more recent maps simply term the building 'mill'. Now demolished.

Rare example of a now disappeared social phenomenon - the public washhouse - which developed along with other sanitary reforms in the mid Victorian era. 1906-7 by F.H. Holford, City Surveyor. Sandstone ashlar; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. Brick chimney. During WW2 the reservoir of water was used by the National Fire Service. The faded sign is still visible next to the door. Building now adapted for badminton. Only one of three pre-1914 swimming baths in Tyne and Wear (the others being Wallsend and Byker). Gibson Street was the fourth public baths built in Newcastle under the Baths and Wash Houses Act 1846 (the aim was to provide individual 'slipper' baths and laundries to combat disease). The building was opened in April 1907. Arthur 'Jack' Jarvis, Olympic swimmer entertained the crowd. The baths cost £28,000. There were separate entrances for men and women with stained glass windows. On the ground floor there are green glazed brick walls. There were 23 slipper baths (only 4 were for women). The swimming pool measured 75 feet x 28 feet. Gibson Street had electricity and water filtration. It had an arched plastered ceiling for improved acoustics. It had amphitheatre seating on both sides, lined at the rear by demountable wooden changing cubicles. The men's entrance retains its original turnstile and ticket windows. Inside the men's entrance hall are four wonderful tile pictures depicting mermaids, a game of water polo, a diver in a striped costume and yachts. Each panel is around four feet x two feet. Lynn Pearson says these are without parallel, even in the palatial historic baths in Manchester, Birmingham and Hull. The two mermaid panels bear the signature of Carter & Co, tile and pottery manufacturers from Dorset. The other two are unsigned. There is a fifth panel which lists the 15 members of the Baths & Wash Houses Committee, the architect and builders, beneath the city's coat of arms. The building is now used for badminton. LISTED GRADE 2

Former W.D. and H.O. Wills tobacco manufacturing factory built of red brick and Portland stone in the 1940s but in an Art Deco style designed prior to the Second World War. Manufacturing ended in the 1980s with the national decline in the cigarette market. Now converted to apartments. LISTED GRADE 2

Built as a flax mill in 1848 on the site of an earlier corn mill, to the design of John Dobson for the firm of Plummer and Cooke, who previously owned the flax mill on the adjacent site which became Northumberland Lead Works. Flax was used to make linen and sail cloth. Originally steam powered the adjacent freestanding, recently restored chimney (HER 1840) forms part of the original Dobson complex. Its use as a flax mill was short. In 1866 it was bought by Proctor and Sons and converted to a flour mill. The building was extended in the mid 1870s when two brick warehouses were constructed - one for flour, the other (HER 5149) for grain. The complex is shown on Ordnance Survey second edition as "Northumberland Mills". Then taken over by Henry Leetham & Sons in 1900. A Miss Carr apparently lived in the garden house next to the big chimney and was employed by Leethams to test each batch of flour by baking small loaves of bread in her oven. The flour mill stood empty for many years until it was taken over by McPhersons Wine and Spirit Merchants in the 1920s, who stored bonded whiskey under the brand name of Cluny. Now internally divided, it has a variety of users, mainly craftspersons or artists and a café bar. Sandstone ashlar, later brick additions and attic storey date to 1870s, Welsh slate roof. The road between mill and chimney is at a much higher level than the internal cobbled yard into which the former coal shoots opened. One of the shoots retains its original metal shutter. LISTED GRADE 2

Large detached former manager's house for the Bowes Railway (HER 1005) and Springwell Colliery (HER 2599). Built of red brick with Welsh slate roof in 1908. The house is listed because of its association with the adjacent Bowes Railway which is a Scheduled Ancient Monument. The house was subdivided by a previous occupant and for some time acted as the offices for the Bowes Railway Company Limited. It has now been brought back into single private ownership. LISTED GRADE 2

A terrace of houses with a chapel set at the centre.

A row of twelve aged miners' cottages built in 1906 for the Durham Aged Miners' Homes Association. Built of yellow brick with bands of red brick and roofs of Welsh slate with decorated red ridge tiles. Each house has one double sash window with stone cill and a central stone mullion. Row of turned wooden posts and brackets on low brick wall supports full-length porch. Chimneys of yellow brick with red brick cornice. Low coped brick walls carrying iron railings enclose garden in front of house. Included for sociological reasons. Whilst not dissimilar to aged miners' homes throughout the region, the added architectural elegance has given this group listed status {1}.