Includes Nos. 77 to 85 odd Grey Street (Earl Grey House) on left return. Shops
and houses, now shops and offices. Circa 1837, probably by John Wardle, for
Richard Grainger. Sandstone ashlar; Welsh slate roof. 4 storeys, with some
attics; 28 bays. Ground floor altered. Giant Ionic Order to end and central
5-bay pavilions, pilasters defining each 5 end bays, attached columns the central
5, all fluted. Right 3 columns of centre shorter, stepping up to accommodate
change in level. Windows in plain reveals, mostly sashes, some renewed and some
with glazing bars. Second floor sill band except in 2 right centre bays. Second-
floor entablature with prominent cornice. Top floor has sashes in plain reveals,
panelled pilasters in pavilions; and top cornice and blocking course. Panelled
parapet in centre. Nos. 19 to 27 (Earl Grey House), with inserted Mansard roof
and attic windows, are extensively rebuilt behind facade and are included for
group value. McCombie - Earl Grey House has mansard added c.1900, rebuilt 1982 with atrium behind the altered façade. Bainbridge's department store occupied the Market Street buildings from 1838 until 1976 (see HER 12735).

Houses, now offices. Circa 1839 for Richard Grainger. Sandstone ashlar; Welsh
slate roof. 4 storeys; 9:6:2 bays, the 6 projecting slightly. Renewed ground
floor except for No. 10 at left which has plinth and rustication, fascia and
cornice. Steps up to 4-panelled door and overlight with glazing bars; renewed
windows. No.8 has c.1900 faience ground floor in free Baroque style. Sash
windows on upper floors, with glazing bars to all in No. lO, some to upper floors
of remainder. Aprons to second-floor windows above band; prominent cornice to
second-floor entablature. Top eaves band and cornice. In 2013 No. 2 is the Northern Rock Bank, No. 6 is Indulgence Tanning & Beauty, No. 10 is Horncastle Executive Travel.

This building was listed Grade II in 1987 with the following description:
'Students' Union building. Dated 1924 on tower; by Cackett, Burns, Dick and McKellar, for Armstrong College, later King's College, University of Durham; now Newcastle University. Bright red brick with diaper work; ashlar quoins and dressings; roof not visible. E-plan. Jacobethan style. Basement and 3 storeys; 1:7:1 bays, the outer ones breaking forward with 3 bays in inner return. Projecting central 4-storey tower has keyed open arch in Roman Doric porch with paired pilasters and parapet with coats of arms. Irregular-block jambs to stone mullioned and transomed windows of 2 and 3 lights; 6-light full-height canted bays on projecting ends. Cornices on each floor; diabolo balusters to parapet; small square turret has obelisk finials; high domed lantern with ball and weather vane finial.' {1}.
Extension by Sir William Whitfield {McCombie 2009, 40}.

Column tomb. Circa 1857. Memorial to Thomas Oliver, architect, of 3 Ricton
Place, Newcastle, died 9 December 1857, and his wife d.1886. Sandstone ashlar.
Panelled pedestal with egg-and-dart moulded cornice supports octagonal column with
urn finial.

End bays are returns of Nos. 11-43 Clayton Street (q.v.) and Nos. 95-137 Grainger
Street (q.v.)and are described here since they complete the composition. Shops
and public house, forming south elevation of covered market. 1835 by John Dobson for Richard Grainger. Sandstone ashlar; roof not visible. Classical style. 3
storeys; 34 bays in all. 5 entrances to market, 2 at right with segmental arches
and pilasters. Ground floor shops C20. Giant Corinthian pilasters to end pavilions.
Sash windows, most with glazing bars, in plain reveals; second-floor windows have
aprons and slightly-projecting sills; some renewed first-floor lintels. End bays
have tripartite window in architraves on floor band; second-floor dentilled cornice.
Top parapet with pilasters to 8-bay projections. Blocking course to intermediate
bays. Includes the Butchers Arms Hotel and Pine Apple Hotel Public House on OS second edition. The Butcher's Arms was a Robert Deuchar house from the 1870s. It closed in 1942. The Pineapple had a grill in the basement and a dining room on the first floor in the 1930s. It became the Tap & Spile in 1993. Now a shop. There are pineapple motifs above the columns. Inside on the ground floor there are plaster pineapple motifs but these relate to the C20 Pineapple pub not the 19th century Pineapple Hotel.

Decorative sandstone fountain. The central cast iron spout has three tiers, two with fluted edges. Part of the original design of the pumping station and was in visible working order in 1870.

Steps, walls, piers, gates and railings. Brick, ashlar and wrought iron, 1890 and
'97. Stone steps to door flanked by low chamfered stone walls. Chamfered stone
coping to low brick front walls. 2 piers in front of door, one at left end of wall
and two in right end wall, 5 in all. Panelled square piers, on plinths, with
paired brackets to cornice of coping with urn finials. Railings: spike-headed
alternating with twisted railings; panelled principals with scroll finials; gates
in style of panels.

This structure was listed Grade II in 1987 with the following description:
'Water tower. Dated on plaque on tank NER/1891; for North Eastern Railway. Rockfaced sandstone with ashlar dressings; iron tank. 3 storeys, 5 bays and tank on top. Flat stone lintels and slightly projecting stone sills to mullioned-and-transomed windows on ground and first floors; similar sills to round-headed second-floor windows under stone arches. Moulded cornice, Chimney stacks on returns and high corniced chimneys, square yellow pots to that at right. Tank about 2m high and of same dimensions as building.'

Houses, now offices. Circa 1840. English garden wall bond brick with painted ashlar plinth and dressings; Welsh slate roof. Basement and 3 storeys, 10 bays;
and left wing of 2 storeys, 6 bays. Wider, projecting right bay. Blocked basement openings; wedge stone lintels to sashes with late C19 glazing bars on ground and
first floors, original sashes on second floor with projecting stone sills. Ground floor sill band; first floor aprons and sill band. Roof, hipped at right, has 4
ashlar-corniced brick chimneys. Right return has steps up to wide door and over- light in architrave. Left wing has paired hardboard-covered doors with overlights
in architraves; wedge stone lintels to sashes, some with margin lights; ground floor projecting stone sills; first floor sill and eaves bands; gutter cornice.
Roof has 2 segmental-headed dormers with renewed glazing; 2 ridge chimneys.

The property attracted professional occupants; Kelly’s Trade Directory (1886) showed a civil engineer, surgeon and corn merchant in residence. Later trade directories continue to show
occupation of the townhouses by private individuals until 1959. Kelly’s Trade Directory (1959) provides evidence of commercial tenants, presumably occupying offices rather than homes. These include food makers Numol Ltd., a cinema company and other manufacturers. The building was converted to student accommodation no earlier than the late 1980s.

Recorded 2018 ahead of conversion to studio apartments.

Includes Nos. 44b and 44c Blackett Street (q.v.). Houses, now offices and shops.
1825-31; by Thomas Oliver and John Dobson for Richard Grainger. Sandstone ashlar; Welsh slate roof. Basement, 3 storeys and some later attics; 33 bays in all, with slightly-projecting 5-bay end pavilions defined by giant pilasters. Houses vary
from 3 to 5 bays. 8-panelled doors and overlights (with glazing bars to No.4).
Plain reveals to these and to sash windows, mostly with glazing bars; aprons to
ground floor windows. First floor sill string in outer bays; second floor
entablature and cornice; top plainer cornice. Later mansard roof with 5 dormers
to No.6; 2 inserted pedimented dormers to No.1.Ashlar ridge chimneys. Right
return in similar style has C20 shops inserted in ground floor, giant corner
pilaster at right; glazing bars to sash windows on upper floors. Source:
T. Oliver New Picture of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle 1831, 97. Only this east side now survives of the square. McCombie - First plans were by Thomas Oliver, then according to Oliver in 1831, elevations were designed by John Dobson. The ashlar-fronted houses in their spacious square staked a claim to formality and monumentality that was new to the town. The three ranges were of Greek simplicity. The north range was planned with a central projection with Ionic columns, but instead a slight projection was built with plain giant pilasters. The west range was like the surviving east range with giant plain antae or pilasters, framing five-bay end pavilions, with prominent cornice and lower attic storey. A Grecian honeysuckle-patten cast-iron balcony linked the pavilions at first floor level. On the surviving east side, steps lead to doors above basements protected by renewed railings. No. 5 is now a mere façade to Metro ventilation shafts. No. 1 has some original interior detail including ceiling stucco. The north and west ranges of Eldon Square were demolished to make way for Eldon Square shopping centre (1969-76). A contemporary booklet justified the decision: 'Their architectural quality had been… impaired… it was found impossible to incorporate them in the two-level shopping centre without such drastic further alterations as would defeat the purpose of the retention'.