Erected by the miners of Durham to commemorate the long and self-sacrificing labour in the cause of human progress of Thomas Ramsay who died in 1873. Memorial by G. Burn of Newcastle. Sandstone pedestal, with inscription on east face, bears statue of man in Victorian dress with a scroll under his left arm. 4 pillars support a tall gabled crocketed canopy. LISTED GRADE 2

On 10 August 1983 small fragments of bones were found in a gas pipe service trench in the lane to the north of the cathedral. The trench was 1 foot 6 inches wide and approx 4 foot deep. The bones were found at the south end. In October 1985 a human skeleton was found alongside a "Roman-type stone drain" during excavations to investigate a drainage problem at St. Nicholas Chambers, Amen Corner. The skeleton was found lying in a curved position at a depth of 4 feet 6 inches. Forensic tests by the police showed that the skeleton was between 100 and 200 years old.

Until the early 1990s this was the headquarters of the once powerful Northumberland Branch of the National Union of Mineworkers. Named after Thomas Burt the pitman paliamentarian, and leader of the Northumberland miners for 27 years the building features a statue by Canavan. The building was constructed in 1895 for the Northumberland Miners' Association. Trade Union Offices. Dated 1895 on plaque beside door. By John W. Dyson for Northumberland Miners' Association. Statue of miner by Canavan on gable. Bright red brick and terra cotta with sandstone ashlar dressings and graduated Lakeland slate roof with ornamental red ridge tiles. 2 storeys. Historical note: plaque states that hall was built by the miners in recognition of valuable service rendered by Thomas Burt M.P. as general secretary for 27 years, and to commemorate his appointment as secretary of Board of Trade in 1892. Statue of miner is modelled on figure in R. Hedley's "Going Home", a painting well-known from lithographs. LISTED GRADE 2

A former office and warehouse built from 1890 to 1897 by W.L. Newcombe for Brady and Martin, wholesale chemical manufacturers; now part of the University of Northumbria. Red brick with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof. 3 storeys. Rusticated pilasters support ground floor entablature; giant Ionic Order above has modillioned cornice. Main block has central door and fanlight in doorcase with scrolled pediment. Ground floor oriel windows have Ipswich glazing bars; paired sashes above. Redeveloped behind front façade. LISTED GRADE 2

A huge impressive warehouse built for the Cooperative Wholesale Society in 1899 by Oliver and Leeson and now used as headquarters for Tyne and Wear Museums Service and as the County Archives. Intricate detailing to the outside is reflected in the interior by a prestigious boardroom and splendid tiled toilet facilities. Red brick with sandstone and terracotta dressings. Lakeland slate roofs with copper domes. 4 storeys and 2 storey attics. Full-height flat pilasters support attic balcony, over egg-and-dart moulding with stone brackets. Sashed windows with glazing bars. On left corner a tall narrow oriel rests on stone corbel and rises to ogree dome, with crowning onion domelet and spike finial. Right bay has canted oriel with similar dome. Interior: high-quality staircase and director's suite with marble stairs, walnut panelling, stained glass on top landing showing large wheatsheaf and art deco light fittings. LISTED GRADE 2

This warehouse was listed Grade II in 1987 with the following description:
'1888 north block; 1897 additions to south; 1898 tower. By F. W. Rich for Robinson and Co., printers. Brick with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof. 5 storeys at right, 6 at left, and attics; 6:2:7 bays. Near-central 2-bay tower has groups of 3 slit windows on each floor; panelled and blind-arcaded top floor; wide windows, those in left section round-headed on top floor with brick-and- stone keyed arches. Bays defined by buttresses, those of the top floors at left with ashlar bands. Sill bands. Right section and lower left windows have cambered brick arches with keys; sill bands. Cornices on second floor of left section. Top cornice all around, dentilled at left and on tower. Shaped attic gables, with central pediments, have round-headed and oeil-de boeuf windows between pilasters. High pyramidal tower roof has small octagonal spirelets, all with swept eaves, over blind oriels. Central lead-covered ogee hipped roof.'
Later used as a warehouse to store prosthetic limbs. Converted into apartments and penthouses by Northern Land. LISTED GRADE 2

These warehouses were listed Grade II in 1982 with the following description:
'Warehouses. 1841-44 for Amor Spoor. Flemish bond brick with ashlar plinth and dressings; felt-covered roof with stone gable copings. 7 storeys, 43 bays. 5 gabled bays to bond No. 40 at left; 3 to No. 50; then 16 bays. Warehouse No. 40 has central wider bay and 6 stacks of loading bays; bond No. 50 has 3 stacks of loading bays; 4 to remaining bays. Some stacks bricked up - outer ones of bond 40 entirely. Round-headed openings with projecting stone sills. South elevation to The Close has 2 tall wide rusticated sandstone arched entrances. Modern addition at west end is not of interest.'
Hanover Street and Hanover Stairs which bisect the warehouses, were also built at this time. Originally different parts of the warehouses were owned by different trades. In the 1930s the whole company was bought by Curries, a haulage firm. The ware houses are bonded and under permanent Customs and Excise supervision. In 1939 the warehouses were full of tea evacuated from London. A fire in 1997 irreparably damaged the western warehouse and so this was demolished. Restored and extended as flats 2007-8 by Napper Architects. LISTED GRADE 2

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*