House with shop, now restaurant and offices.C1784; circa 1900 shop. English
bond brick with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof. 4 storeys and attics; 2
bays. Shop in classical style has right entrance; plain sashes above have lintels
with false keystones; projecting stone sills to upper floors; first floor sill
band. Roof has inserted gabled dormer with bargeboards, one end brick chimney. In 2013 this is Blue Velvet.

Following a fire in 1900 which destroyed Robinson's print works and paper warehouse and adjacent buildings, J.D. Milburn (shipping owner) bought the land following the fire for the construction of an office block. Oliver, Leeson and Wood were appointed as architects of the new building which would occupy the steeply sloping triangular site. Other people who worked on the building include: Stephen Easten (builder), Swinney Bros (metal frame of building), H Watson and Sons (heating) and George Laidler (interior decoration and glazing). When building started a metal barrier was inserted between the site and the St. Nicholas's Church to avoid vibration damage. Huge foundations were also dug for the new building including 30ft+ deep pile foundations on The Side. The building officially opened in 1905.
This building was listed Grade II in 1987 with the following description:
'Office block. Dated 1905 on plaques; begun 1902. By Oliver, Leeson and Wood. Dark red granite basement and entrances; rusticated sandstone ashlar ground floor; brick with ashlar dressings above. Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. Triangular plan with 3 light wells. Free Baroque style. Left basement; 5 storeys and attics; 13 bays. Tower-like first bay, of plain brick with ashlar bands, has full-height pilaster and banded gable chimney. Basement dies into slope at 8th (entrance) bay containing double door and fanlight in hollow-chamfered arched reveal in Ionic doorcase. Similar arches in 4th and 12th bays contain round- headed windows; sash windows in other bays. Ground-floor cornice, bracketed over arches to support 3-storey stone-mullioned-and-transomed canted oriels; intermediate windows have keyed elliptical brick arches on first and second floors, flat stone lintels in band on third; all sashes with projecting stone sills and upper glazing bars. Third-floor cornice. Fourth (attic) storey has stilted Diocletian windows, with drip moulds, above canted bays; and elliptical-headed windows elsewhere. Top cornice; console bracketed high gables: above the canted bays, contain stone- mullioned-and-transomed windows in aedicules. High-pitched roof has paired sashes in dormers. Rounded corner section at left: 5 bays under turret. Rear to The Side of 20 wide bays, stepping up a steep slope, with varying numbers of floors and 4 entrances; the highest bay has large top sundial; that next to it contains niche with bust of Admiral Collingwood and inscription commemorating his birth in 1748 in a house on that site. Interior has much high quality wood and bevelled glass; circular balustrade to principal lift well with heraldic glass, by Laidler of Newcastle, facing light well. Low-relief panels,in Arts and Crafts painted-leather style, in Dean Street entrance hall; much original detail and Art Nouveau tiling,the latter overpainted.'
McCombie - Entrances on several levels. An effective composition with floors marked by cornices. Big attic gables. Two-storey basement with a shop entrance on the lowest level, the rounded south corner (now Oldfield's restaurant)Interior has light wells, stairwells and corridors, glazed screens, armorial glass, panelled walls - handled in masterly fashion, with an especially impressive entrance from Dean Street. Extensive use of tiles in the public areas, an early example of the work of H & R Johnson. Successfully restored by them in 1990-1. (Some confusion about the tiles - Newcastle Chronicle (1903) says that the tile work contract had gone to Marsden Tile company of Burslem - perhaps this was changed following the article).
Technical elements: The building has a metal frame, or is at least partially framed. It is unclear whether this is steel or cast iron. The building was heated by steam – this was still in use until the early 1990s at least. It was lit by electricity and had four electric lifts from the start (both would have been expected in a large new building of 1902). Each section of the building also has a fireproof staircase.
Tenants: Some of the first tenants were the solicitors Ingledew and Fenwick and The Ashington Coal Company (four directors of which were Milburns). The Coal Company stayed in the building until they went out of business in 1946. At least half of the first tenants were related to the coal industry. By 1907 there were also 46 offices let to shipping concerns with aspects of the industry represented.

Built between 1962 and 1976 to store radio equipment. The adjacent chimney is used for radio transmission by the emergency services.

1860-62, Thomas Hawksley engineer.
Built by the Sunderland and South Shields Water Company and began working in 1862. Brick with stone dressings and rusticated quoins. Hipped slate roofs. The
buildings are in an Italianate Rundbogenstil, the narrow windows mostly alternating
single and coupled. One storey. All buildings have deep overhanging eaves with bow brackets. Completed by 1864. Has a 20th century flat roofed extension to the east.

This building was listed Grade II in 1987 with the following description:
'Offices. 1902-4 by Oliver, Leeson and Wood for Sun Insurance Co. Sandstone ashlar with granite plinth and door surrounds. Copper roof. Free style. 6 storeys, 5 bays and 3-bay cimved right corner. Central double door in bolection-moulded architrave with coved rusticated stone surround to that and to fanlight; rusticated ground floor. Prominent brackets above door support balcony to window in segmental- pedimented Ionic aedicule with carved sun. Architraves to all windows; bracketed pediments to those in outer first - floor bays, and cornices on second floor. Prominent modillioned top cornice. Curved corner has high plinth with cushion rustication and guilloche band; door in central bay has fluted architrave under oeil-de-boeuf flanked by large Atlantes, on brackets with much leaf and flower carving, which support first-floor balcony. Balconies have wrought-iron sun motif. Right return to Westgate Road continues plinth and has giant Corinthian pilasters to segmental pediment containing large sunburst. Copper-covered blocking course ornamented with repeated S. Roof curved over corner bay.'
In 2013 this is Saints Hairdressing, Hippo House and Prontaprint. Offices above.

Listing reads:
'Shops and houses, now shops and offices. Circa 1836 by John Dobson for Richard Grainger. Sandstone ashlar; Welsh slate roof. 4 storeys, lO bays. Ground floor altered; No.92 has circa 1900 shop with slender pilasters and curved glass windows flanking central glazed recessed door with overlight. 2-bay end pavilions have Giant Corinthian pilasters and contain first floor windows framed by flat Tuscan pilasters with entablature; sill string and architrave to second floor windows. Central 6 bays have architraves to all windows and second-floor sill string, with second floor entablature. Top storey has pilasters in pavilions, plain reveals to all windows, arcaded balustrade above pavilions. All windows sashes with glazing bars. Ridge brick chimneys.' {1}
Named Norfolk Commercial Hotel on OS second edition.

Shops and houses, now offices. Circa 1836 by Dobson for Richard Grainger.
Sandstone ashlar; roof not visible. 4 storeys, 6 bays. Flat pilasters and
entablature to ground floor with C2O alterations. Upper floors have sash windows,
some with glazing bars, in plain reveals. Second floor band; second floor
entablature. Top cornice.

The artificial cooling pond was fed by water from the well under the engine house. It was needed because the site did not have a natural surface stream. Water from the cooling pond was recycled after use via underground pipes. In 1930 the steam powered plant was replaced by electrical equipment, making the cooling pond redundant.

Shops and houses, now shops and offices. Circa 1837 probably by John Wardle for
Richard Grainger. Sandstone ashlar; roof not visible. 4 storeys, 15 bays. Ground
floor altered. Plain reveals to windows, some altered, some sashes with glazing
bars, in upper floors. Second floor has sill band and entablature with prominent
cornice. Top floor has cornice and blocking course. Circa 1900 office entrance
to No. 94.

Commercial building. 1884-6 by John Johnstone for the Newcastle and Gateshead
Gas Company. The gas board occupied the premises until 1965. Sandstone ashlar, with slate roofs, in French Renaissance style.
3 storeys and attics, basement on south front to St. John Street. 3 by 3 wide
bays plus an angled corner bay. Arcaded ground floor altered on West front to
provide shop windows. The central bay on either front breaks forward in a 2-
storey rounded oriel with a balustraded parapet before an elaborate 3-stage
pilastered gable backing on to a pavilion roof. The side bays have shallower
square pilastered projections and smaller pedimented 2-stage attic gables... The
corner bay is an oriel, on a heavy rounded and moulded corbel, rising to a dome
with a smaller drum, dome and finial above. Horizontal stability is given by
banded rustication on the narrow wall spaces and by entablatures with panelled
blocking courses at floor levels. 3 or 4 plain windows to each bay. Now Yates Wine Lodge.