The earliest surviving council-built houses in Newcastle having been constructed in 1913-16 under the supervision of Mr Halford, Property Surveyor to the Corporation. The crescent consists of 44 flats with rear yards enclosed by low walls {1}. Communal hot water and rear balconies looking to the river {McCombie}. Completed 1916, excellent municipal housing by F.H. Holford, City Surveyor. Brick and render (casements removed); two levels, the rear with balconies and river views.

Newcastle's first electricity power station was built by The Newcastle Upon Tyne Electric Supply Company (NESCO) in Pandon Dene where advantage could be taken of the railway and its coal supply. It was a small scale venture using a reciprocating steam engine with ropes and pulleys to drive its generators, producing electricity for lighting. It was under construction in 1890 but by 1901 was superseded by Neptune bank Power Station at Wallsend (HER 5106).

A building was recorded at this location in 1707 and was in use as a guard house by 1784, a use still identified in a building at the same location in 1861. After 1888 the building was either rebuilt or extended westwards when the Fort walls became the back of the building. Three blocked musket loops are visible inside. It was then used as the smiths, carpenters and fitters workshops for the submarine mining depot. Converted, heightened and extended in the 1920s to form a two-storey smokehouse for herring. Ventilation is by top hung weatherboarded ventilation shutters and a long louvred ridge ventilator with four tall ventilator stacks. Two military boundary stones - square blocks set in rubble north wall inscribed WD/BS/No. 15 and WD/BS/No. 16. Recorded in 2002 prior to renovation by Northern Counties Archaeological Services.

Built 1896 - 1900 by Joseph Oswald as offices for Newcastle Breweries Ltd. A red sandstone ground floor and bright red upper floors gives the building a prominent appearance. The pride of the interior was the mahogany panelled boardroom. "Newcastle Breweries Ltd" can still be seen inscribed above the double-door entrance to the building {1}. Grey granite plinth, red sandstone ashlar ground floor; bright red brick upper floors with red sandstone dressings. Roof of plain tiles; copper fishscale dome to turret. 3 storeys and attic. At left a double door, and fanlight on wood band inscribed NEWCASTLE BREWERIES LTD and covered with art nouveau wrought iron grille. Flanking long brackets from plinth to entablature with Jacobean ornament on pulvinated frieze, over door. Interior: faience entrance hall, faience architraves to doors with pulvinated friezes and scroll pediments; strapwork stucco decoration to many ceilings; deep ornamental stucco friezes. Many richly carved mahogany chimney pieces. Marble stair has wrought iron balustrade and wide-grip handrail. Frosted glass doors, one pair CLERK'S OFFICE and ACCOUNTANT'S OFFICE {2}.
The offices were listed Grade II in 1987 with the following description:
'Brewery offices; 1896-1900 by Joseph Oswald for Newcastle Breweries Ltd. Grey granite plinth, red sandstone ashlar ground floor; bright red brick upper floors with red sandstone dressings. Roof of plain tiles; copper fishscale dome to turret. 3 storeys and attics; 5 bays. At left a double door, and fanlight on wood band inscribed NEWCASTLE BREWERIES LTD. and covered with art nouveau wrought- iron grille. Flanking long brackets from plinth to entablature with Jacobean ornament on pulvinated frieze, over door. 4 wide, round-headed ground-floor windows and central oculus with glazing bars and upper painted ornament. First- floor oriels above door and in alternate bays; sashes between, with swagged friezes; oriel parapets become balconies to second-floor sashes in moulded stone surrounds. Top modillioned cornice. Shaped gables, at left and paired over central bays, have oculi and consoles. Corbelled corner turret at right. Tall brick chimneys with ashlar string and cornice. Interior: faience entrance hall, stair wall and first floor hall; faience architraves to doors with pulvinated friezes and scroll pediments; strapwork stucco decoration to many ceilings; deep ornamental stucco friezes. Former board room mahogany-panelled; many richly- carved mahogany chimney pieces. Marble stair has wrought-iron balustrade and wide grip handrail. Frosted glass doors, one pair 'CLERK'S OFFICE' and 'ACCOUNTANT'S OFFICE'.'
In the 1950s the Bruce Building was compulsorily purchased from the brewery for the extension to King's College. The east end of the building and the upper floors of Nos. 101-111 were occupied by the education department, later the International Centre for Cultural and Heritage Studies. To the rear of the building is a single storeyed, flat roofed block which appears to have been added during World War II. This may be a look-out feature.

A large flour mill designed by Gibson Kyle and built for Proctor and Sons (who at that time owned the adjoining former flax mill HER 5161) built 1873-4. By 1896 the mill was owned by a family of miller's named Leethams, who also owned the adjacent property. The name Leethams can still be seen painted onto the gable end of the building. Until the 1920s there was an internal walkway through the two buildings. Leethams left c1916 and various small businesses utilised the building. From the 1940s to 1980s the building was owned by a farmer's co-operative, Farmway, and used to grind cattle feed. During the 1970s it was sold to the Revolutionary Workers Party to house a printing press. Basic remedial work was carried out on what had become a derelict building. Now being converted into the Centre for Children's Books [2004]. Photographed beforehand by GWK chartered architects. Brick with ashlar dressings and rear basement to river. Welsh slate roof. 4 storeys, 3 bays and 2 bays set back at left. 3 high vehicle entrances have segmental brick arches on 2 cast iron columns; outer brick piers have cast-iron fenders and stone impost blocks; iron cladding to brick springers over central columns. The maker's mark (Toward of St Lawrence) can be seen on the cast iron columns. Within the arches are double doors under wood lintels. Rear elevation to Ouseburn has central gabled hoist {2}. Now Seven Stories - centre for children's literature. Completed 2005 by GWK Architects. Cross the footbridge to see a fascinating extension on the landward side, evoking the turning pages of a book.

This building was listed Grade II* in 1954 with the following description:
'House, later cooperage, now public house and restaurant. C15 and later. Sand- stone ground floor and right return of first floor supporting timber-framed upper floors with rendered infill; brick nogging on right return. Pantiled roof. Gabled front of 3 storeys, one bay. Central plain wooden door under wood lintel flanked by plain 2-light windows. Jettied first and second floors have plain windows in upper part of each floor; diagonal corner bracing to these floors. Top gable has curved principals and studs with plain window inserted in central blocked hoist opening. Interior shows curved principals, some truncated at collars at apex.' {1}.
Building survey in the 1990s suggested that the building in its present form dates from the mid C16, compatible with the character of carpentry and method of construction. The use of stone walls for ground and first floor is a feature of Newcastle vernacular tradition. The later phases of the building date to the final period of timber-framed construction in the town. The final change from timber-framing to all brick construction probably took place in the late C17 {3}. The present Cooperage (no 32) occupies four building plots on the ground floor frontage. The historic 16th century former house occupies the eastern plot. Dated C15th.

Originally consisting of a grain silo capable of holding 200,000 tons, a flour mill and animal food factory, only the silo now stands. Although designed prior to the Second World War it was constructed in 1949, designed by Mouchel and Partners. Built for Joseph Rank Ltd Baltic Flour Mills in a neo-classical monumental style. Internally it contains over 100 vertical shafts. Processed imported wheat for baking and for animal feed. The mills were demolished in the early 1980s. The gauntly grain warehouse was converted into an art gallery. Gateshead Council and the Royal Institute of British Architects invited designs for the arts exhibition facility. The competition was won by Dominic Williams and in 1998/9 the warehouse was stripped to its facades and rebuilt as an art factory (Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art) with six main floors and three mezzanines.
DESCRIPTION / STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
This striking industrial building, a former silo warehouse, is what remains of a large flour milling complex for Joseph Rank Ltd., designed and begun in the 1930s, but only completed after the Second World War. They processed wheat from abroad for domestic and agricultural use, with a capacity of 20,000 tonnes. Constructed in red and buff brick, there is a dramatic vertical emphasis with 4 corner towers and pilasters interspersed on the wall faces between. In its conversion to the Centre for Contemporary Art in 1998, the architect’s concept in the conversion was ‘the hollowing out of the internal concrete structure, leaving two parallel monolithic brick walls to the north and south.’ Most of the concrete silo structures were removed, with the space left largely open, using suspended floors and glass lifts to maintain a ‘lightweight autonomous structure’ and utilising the towers as service cores. The strong design and monumental presence of the original building has therefore been safeguarded, with any new work responding to the old whilst making a clear contemporary statement. The retention of openness to the interior has also safeguarded its industrial character whilst creating an appropriate space for its current use. Its significance, therefore, lies both in its original design, and its imaginative, successful conversion.
MATERIALS 2 colour brick, concrete, steel, glazing
ARCHITECT Gelder & Kitchen
ENGINEERS Mouchel & Partners Alts. Dominic Williams (EWP)
DATES 1939 (plans) 1950 (opened) 1982 (closed) 2002 (re-opened)

Spiller's Tyne Mill was completed in 1938, and was then the tallest flour milling building in the world. Spiller's had come to Newcastle from Bridgewater in 1896 when they acquired Davidson's Phoenix Mill in the Close. The Tyne Mill replaced this older complex. There were two main buildings at the Tyne Mill - the Silo and Flour Mill. The Silo was designed to store 34,000 tons of grain. The mill contained a warehouse, the flour mill and an animal food mill. To serve it the deep water berth was improved and the rail network along the quayside extended. The old Phoenix Mill was seriously damaged by fire during the Second World War {1}. The mill was put forward for listing in September 2010 but was not added to the list because of the loss of the flour mill which has compromised the architectural value of the surviving component. This is also not an original design. Oscar Faber's silos at Cardiff and Avonmouth, Bristol are very similar. Newcastle was the last of these three and might be described as a copy. Electrically-driven mill designed in 1935 by Oscar Faber for Spillers Ltd, specialists in flour milling and animal feeds. Completed in 1938. Largest flour mill in Europe when built. Could process 254,000 tonnes of grain a year. The flour mill was demolished in 1987. What survives is the animal food mill (provender) with offices and the flour silo. To the south are brick ancillary buildings and an electricity sub station. The provender mill and silo are built of reinforced concrete. The individual silo bins within the silo building were formed using the 'slipform' method of concrete construction (continuous shuttering method). Concrete was continuously poured, enabling quicker drying. The Tyne Mill silos reached their full height in only 21 days. The slipform method was devised in North America in the 1920s, but was not widespread in the UK until the 1950s. Its first use in the UK was at the Shredded Wheat factory in Welwyn in 1927 (listed grade 2). The mill's south elevation to the River Tyne has brick panels. The mill is 6 storeys, with a further 6 storeys in a higher recessed block. It has a concrete frame projecting from window strips and brick panels between floors. The right return is clad in later C20 corrugated metal. The mill and silo are linked by a pair of covered walkways. The rectangular silo is 120 feet high. There is a tower at the right end for the receiving house. The top storey has a raised central panel with the word SPILLERS on it. There are round windows except on the tower which has narrow windows in two floors. The ground floor has doors at right and left ends under concrete canopies and tall windows. Inside the mill has six warehouse floors. Reinforced concrete columns are visible throughout. The wooden floors are all original, as are the stairs and two paternoster lifts. The offices at the western end of several floors have wooden doors and panelling. The offices are reached by wooden staircase from reception. Some of the floors retain large wooden storage bins. The top floor of the silo housed the feed conveyers. The rest of the silo has 117 vertical concrete walled bins, each 14 feet square. They were originally open but now have a concrete covering. The ground floor housed the extraction conveyers. Original stairs survive. With the probable exception of some electrical equipment, all machinery was added circa 1987 after the demolition of the flour mill. At this time the provender mill became a flour mill. The complex went out of use in 2007 and is now empty. The building was recently subject to fire which has affected three upper floors.
In 2018 a targeted evaluation trench on the site of the 19th century Tyne Manure and Chemical Works. Concrete foundations were identified in the section of the trench which may relate to the Tyne Manure and Chemical works or Spiller's Mill.
This building was formerly on the Newcastle local list, but was demolished c.2010 (Google Earth Pro aerial photos).

The Maltings were built in 1892 for Addison Potter and Son. It was built of "best quality brick" and had a datestone bearing the motto "Spero Bene Agere" (I hope to act well) on the corner of a small two-storey block which contained the offices. It had a classically detailed façade and pedimented doorway. The main block was an imposing seven-storey structure which, with its small windows and castellated parapet wall, had a keep-like appearance. This was emphasised by the octagonal towers visible above the surrounding buildings. The construction of this block was one reason for its demolition. The floors were of unreinforced concrete set between RSJs on cast iron columns and steel beams, and as such were not strong enough for modern warehousing needs. The roof construction was notable for its trusses - a fine example of the combination of pitch pine compression members and metal tie rods, spanning 14 metres. The building was taken over by Newcastle Breweries Ltd and was in use until the early 1970s {1}. Shown as "malthouse" on Ordnance Survey second edition.

Site of toll house for a footpath that ran alongside the railway (SMR 1063) over the viaduct (SMR 4327) in the earlier period of its history. The opening of the Byker Road Bridge in 1878 resulted in the closure of the footpath adjacent to the railway, and then the viaduct was widened to four tracks circa 1882. The toll house was a small and inconspicuous building of dressed stone, nicely detailed. It was in a Tudor style with a flat or slightly pitched roof. The windows had characteristic drip stone mouldings above them. There was one floor at track level, and a basement storey below it at natural ground level. It was empty and devoid of any fittings when it was demolished in 1977 {1}.