1978-87 by the Borough Director of Architecture, DW Robson. Warm red brick, red tiled hipped roofs. Almost vernacular. The central block houses the Council Chamber which has stained glass by the architect. A quadrangular block projects from each corner.

Two storey brick commercial buildings. Sash windows at first floor level with projecting sills and splayed stone lintels. Projecting quoins at the south-eastern angle have been replaced in painted wood, covering a change when No. 277 was still standing. The ground floors have wide glazed shopfronts. No. 279 was originally divided to two properties that were let separately. There are cellars under the front rooms. Each property is room rooms deep and has a rear yard. There are chimneys in the gable walls.

No. 277 and the joinery works were fitted into the space to the rear of Nos. 279 and 281 and gradually expanded to fill the spaces between the houses and St. Matthew's Church (HER 6283). The front part of No. 277 was two storeys high, but has been demolished. The joinery works date to after 1919. It incorporates two smaller buildings and a yard on the west side. Each floor has a single large principal room, with smaller stores and ancillary rooms at north and south ends. The upper floor carried the weight of heavy machinery and so it carried by close-set joists on steel beams supported on brick and steel columns. The east and west walls are brick with some stone at the south end of the east side, a remnant of an older building. The east wall incorporates the former boundary wall. The upper floor of the joinery works is built of wood. It oversails the former west yard. A roller shutter door has been inserted. A small projecting block has been added on the north end of the east wall, to serve as a first floor canteen. A row of skylights have been added along the east wall between the joinery works and an old garden wall. The roof is divided into two parts at the south end. The north end of the roof has a single large truss, jointed and secured with iron straps. There are four purlins to each side and a ridge piece. The north-eastern part of the works is what remains of No. 277. The remainder of this structure is visible as a scar in the east wall of No. 279. The north wall shows a blocked window with a timber lintel, cut by the present door to the joinery works. A plan of 1938 shows the rear part of No. 277 as a boiler house. On the ground and first floors of No. 277 there are heavily-bolted steel-clad fireproof doors which once separated the boiler house from the workshops. Known locally as 'the woodshed'.

Large rusticated dressed sandstone gate pillars with lower ashlar pilasters to the three faces, the same height and design as the flanking pillars at the ends of the quadrant walls between them. The roadside west faces of the pillars, pilasters and walling have reeded decorative friezes. The east faces have the same friezes but are blind. At ground level there is a single course of projecting plinth. The entrance probably had iron gates originally, matching the railings to each side. It is also likely that lanterns originally sat on the tops of the larger pillars. There is a modern circular bronze plaque attached to the west face of the pilaster on the north gate pillar which reads 'WALKER PARK' and has a worn coat of arms, probably of Newcastle Corporation. Carved into the plinth stone of the west face of the SW lower pillar is an Ordnance Survey benchmark (107,10) which fiirst appears on the 1941 OS map. The pathway into the park used to be much wider than it is now. It was a boulevard formed of two paths either side of a central line of trees.

Shown on map of around 1770.

Shown on map of around 1770.

Shown on map of around 1770.

Early 19th century coal pit.

Coal pit served by Jesmond (Burdon's) Waggonway.

Shown on a map of 1847.