The Town Hall in Saville Street, 1844, was designed by John Dobson. Largely financed by local benefactor Joseph Laing. Informal Tudor style with double L-shaped plan turning the corner of Howard and Saville Streets. Built in two separate parts from 1844-45. The battlemented ranges with decorative gables and at one corner an oriel window below a plainer gable do not harmonise too well. However the building was meant to cater for a variety of functions and the emphasis is less on civic monumentality than on fitting in with the domestic scale of the street {2}. Town Improvement Commissioner's Offices, Savings Bank, Mechanics Institute, Museum and Police Station; taken over as Town Hall 1849. Coursed squared tooled sandstone with ashlar dressings; Lakeland slate roof with stone gable copings. Tudor style. Tall corniced octagonal chimneys. Wrapped around the earlier Poor Law Building (HER 7287). Tudor style of informal design. LISTED GRADE 2

At the western end of the town, a deep water facility, the New Quay, was constructed at the beginning of the C19. In 1803 the right to hold a market at North Shields was finally granted, and in 1806 a market place on the New Quay was formed. It is shown on Wood's 1827 map and the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map. A photograph c.1910 is reproduced in Hollerton (1997, p 41) {1-3}. The foundation stone for the New Quay and Market Place was laid by the Duke of Northumberland on the 4th October 1806. It was designed by David Stephenson, the Percy family's estate architect, who was responsible for All Saints Church in Newcastle. The Market Place buildings were built between 1806 and 1817. The Market Place was never completed. All three sides of the New Quay were meant to be enclosed by classical buildings. John Dobson, then an apprentice in Stephenson's practice, painted a watercolour of the proposed scheme in 1810. All that survives is the 13 bays of the original 21 bays on the west side of the quayside opposite the river. The Northumberland Arms was the centrepiece of the range (HER 7296). The southernmost 8 bays have been demolished. The New Quay provided access for ships of up to 300 tons. From 1901 to August 1931, a tramline ran from the New Quay to the links bandstand in Whitley Bay {4}. The market place was the terminus for coaches in the 18th century.

Shown on Woods map of 1827 leading to a staith at the Low Light. This carried coal from Whitley Colliery to the collier brigs loading at the quays and limestone from Whitley Quarry. Named as "Whitley Coal and Lime Waggonway" on Rook's plan of 1827. Ran on an inclined plane.

Shown on Woods 1827 map. Congregational Church. Built 1818. Became a furniture warehouse in 1947. Now demolished.

Wood’s 1827 map shows this Presbyterian Chapel to the north of Low Street, near the Bull Ring.

This Quaker Burial Ground is associated with the meeting house shown on Wood’s 1827 map (HER ref. 4574). The 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan of 1857 shows the burial ground as nearly square. Two houses separate it from the Crown and Sceptre Tavern to the north. The 1:500 Ordnance Survey map of 1894 shows "Friends Burial Ground (Disused) and a meeting house with seats for 250 people. The site is now covered by new housing, presumably a second generation since World War 2. The graveyard was cleared in 1945, the bodies presumably reinterred, and the gravestones re-erected along the east end of the south wall of Preston Cemetery. A plaque records the event.

North Shields Baptist Chapel, by John Dobson, was built in 1846. It is ashlar-built in the Romanesque style and has a door with moulded arch in the centre of the front gable. LISTED GRADE 2

The Primitive Methodists of North Shields first met in a chapel on Ranter's Bank, but in 1861 moved to a new church in the town centre (HER ref. 4577).

Methodist New Connection Chapel on Low Street shown on Wood’s 1827 map.

Friends Meeting House, Stephenson's Street, the burial ground on opposite side of the street is probably associated with this house (HER ref. 4579).