Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition. The Egypt Cottage is sometimes cited as Newcastle's first licenced house. It certainly existed as the Egypt Inn in the early 18th century, later the Egypt Tavern. It is located in an area known as Little Egypt (see John Wood's plan of Newcastle 1827), alluding to the huge grain stores like those of the Pharoahs. Richardson’s Trade Directory of Newcastle for 1838 lists a Mr John Bell as the landlord of the Egypt Cottage public house. The pub was rebuilt in 1873 as the Eygpt Cottage. The owner was Mrs Susanna Gibson. The new Egypt Cottage of 1873 was terraced northwards into the valley slope. The building was long (east-west) and of two floors, entirely of brick apart from some sandstone walls in the cellar. The structure was skewed to take in the curve of City Road at this point. Rooms on the ground floor included a bar, bar parlour, a tap room and a kitchen. The first floor was largely accommodation apart from the long club room at the east. The yard to the rear was angled and small with ash pits at the north end. It seems unlikely that the dog-legged east wall of the building was ever completed to this plan. Certainly, the second edition Ordnance Survey of 1897 (not included) shows the wall straight. The front elevation of the public house is shown on one of the submitted drawings. As today, the first floor has six sash windows with stone lintels and sills with a slate roof above (roof trusses were of standard king-post construction). The ground floor elevation was ornate, befitting a public house with ornate panelling and windows. At this time there was a central door and doors to the east and west extremities. In 1925 it was sold to McEwan's for £6, 250. It later passed to Scottish & Newcastle. It was a free house before closure. On New Year's Day 1932 the pub was damaged by fire, probably started by burglars. In 1937 architects W M and T R Milburn of Sunderland submitted plans for major alterations. On the ground floor there was to be a main counter bar with sitting rooms to east and west and a rear room marked as a cellar. Hallways to east and west led to the private accommodation upstairs and to the yard. One of the former bedrooms is marked as a kitchen and the stairways had been altered from the 1873 pattern. At the end of the 1950s the area to the north of City Road around the Egypt Cottage was developed as the studios for Tyne Tees Television. The Egypt Cottage, as the local public house became known as ‘studio five’, (there were only four Tyne Tees studios; it was the equivalent of the ‘19th hole’ on a golf course). Demolished in 2009 but recorded beforehand. The ground floor bar and adjacent room to the east were decorated in a rather eclectic style with certain features harking back to the Art Deco style of the 1920s and 30s which, with its enthusiasm for ancient Egyptian art following the discovery of Tutankhamun’s Tomb in 1922, is very appropriate for the Egypt Cottage. The long marble-topped counter bar and tall shelving to the rear were quite grand features. Upstairs, the long club room was disused but must have been an intimate venue for music with a stage area, dark blue walls and a ‘mansard’ ceiling above painted with a quite realistic blue sky and clouds.

Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition. The area was known as Little Egypt (see John Wood's plan of Newcastle 1827 and Thomas Oliver 1830), alluding to the 18th century huge wooden grain stores like those of the Pharoahs.

Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition. Opened in 1902. The building is built of brick and of two storeys. A Fitzgerald's house. Closed in 1995.

Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition. Now Bar Six.

Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition. Owned by Ridley, Cutter & Firth. Closed in 1914.

Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition. Owned by Arrol's from 1908. Also known as the American Coffee House. Demolished before 1914.

Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition. Now under student flats.

Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition. Demolished in the 1930s.

Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition. The rolley works appear to have been out of use by 1930s. A buildings recording was carried out on several buildings on Coquet Street by Alan Williams in 2009. One building was noted as being the blacksmiths (1860s) and later cartwright's for the Cart and Rolley Works. The building which was recorded was 19th century in date, made of brick and square in plan.

Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition.