House. Early C18. English garden wall bond brick of varying patterns; roof not visible. 3 storeys, 5 bays. Doors in third and fourth bays, that at left renewed under 2-pane overlight, that at right double and boarded with broad glazing bars to overlight. Soldier-course lintels to wide-boxed sashes with glazing bars; larger ground floor windows with some alterations. Floor strings. LISTED GRADE 2

1902 by A. Stockwell; originally the 'Carlton Hotel' which had a billiard hall. Listing description is wrong, the building was designed and constructed as a public house and billiard hall not a music hall. Replaced the Wheatsheaf PH (HER 16672) owned by John Balmbra. In 1962, the centenary of the Blaydon Races, it became a music hall once again and revived the name Balmbra's. The famous Tyneside comedian Dick Irwin performed here for many years. In 1981 the music hall became a disco. In 1983 pool tables were installed in the auditorium. In 1986 the pub briefly became the Gaslight & Lazer before reverting to Balmbra's. Since its construction the building has lost most of its original fittings and partitions particularly on the ground floor. Most significantly, in 1995, consent was given to convert the ground floor of the adjacent property on Drury Lane to form part of the Balmbra’s Public House to enlarge the bar space. LISTED GRADE II

Fish market, now warehouse. 1880 by A.M. Fowler. Brick with ashlar dressings;
Welsh slate roof. One high storey, 3 x 7 bays. 3-bay west elevation has bays
defined by rusticated pilasters with entasis. Keyed arch and extended impost
strings to central open entrance flanked by high keyed oculi; high entablature
and deep cornice. Low-pitched hipped roof has roof lights and long, hipped
ridge ventilator. Central arched entrances flanked by arched windows on each
return. Entrances all have elaborate wrought iron gates under grilles with
Newcastle arms. LISTED GRADE 2

Houses and shops, now shops and offices. Circa 1837 for Richard Grainger.
Painted ashlar; roof not visible. Block including No. 83 Westgate Road at left.
4 storeys: 1:8:1 bays and curved corner bays at each end. Ground floor shops
renewed, but some original cast iron columns visible. Plain reveals to sashes
with glazing bars, tripartite in slightly-projecting end bays. Second floor band
and prominent cornice; eaves band, top cornice and blocking course. LISTED GRADE 2

House, now part of shop. Circa 1837, probably by John Wardle, for Richard
Grainger. Sandstone ashlar; roof not visible. 4 storeys, 4 bays and rounded
left corner to Pink Lane. Early C2O shop. Upper floors have sash windows,
those in left bay tripartite, with glazing bars in plain reveals. Floor bands;
prominent second-floor cornice; top cornice and blocking course. LISTED GRADE 2

Shops and houses forming west front of covered market. 1835 by John Dobson for
Richard Grainger. Sandstone ashlar; roof not visible. Classical style. 4
storeys; 50 bays in all; symmetrical. Giant Corinthian pilasters to 3-bay end
pavilions and over market entrance bays flanking central 12-bay block. Market
entrances framed by wide Tuscan pilasters and entablature. C20 shop fronts.
Plain reveals to sash windows with glazing bars on upper floors; second floor
aprons and slightly-projecting sills. Second floor has bracketed dentilled
cornice. Top cornice. Parapet with pilasters over pavilions; blocking course
over intermediate bays. One-bay returns complete the composition of Nos. 1-37
Nelson Street (q.v.) and Nos. 1-25 Nun Street (q.v.). LISTED GRADE 1

Public house. Circa 1837, probably by John Wardle, for Richard Grainger. Sand-
stone ashlar; roof of concrete tiles. 4 storeys, 7 windows, the outer 3 at
either side in semicircular bowed projections. Central double 8-panelled door
and overlight; and doors with beaded panels, also with overlights, in side bays;
plain reveals to these and to sash windows, most with glazing bars, on upper floors;
renewed on ground floor. Floor bands and second-floor prominent cornice. Top
cornice. LISTED GRADE 2

This building was listed Grade II in 1987 with the following description:
'Public House. Circa 1899 by Cackett, Burns Dick for J. Fitzgerald. Ashlar ground floor, second floor and turret; Flemish bond brick first floor; graduated slate roof. Art Nouveau style.3 storeys; 3 bays, the central wide and the outer projecting slightly, with turret on right bay. High plinth and Tuscan Order attached columns to ground floor, with double doors in architraves in end bays under segmental pediments with carved tympan; Curved windows beside doors and 2 shallow curved bow windows in centre, with pictorial stained glass overlights to doors and windows. High fascia with central bracket to cornice bowed out under wide 1st floor curved oriel; paired sashes above. Left projecting bay has keyed flat brickarch to first floor sash; and paired sashes in arched surround; attached central columns to all paired sashes. Right project- ing bay has similar first-floor sash under 2 slits; prominent cornice with project- ing diagonal spouts; high ramped parapet with cartouches supports squat pilasters; wide bracketed eaves to lantern. Deep dentilled eaves over central bay. High pyramidal roof over left bay and diagonally over lantern. End brick and ashlar chimney. Interior shows high-quality mahogany chimney piece and fittings.' {1}.
The New Bridge Inn in Castle Square was brewing 70 half-barrels per week in the 1850s. John Fitzgerald bought it in 1892 and rebuilt it in 1901. Its name changed to the Bridge in 1955. Free style. McCombie - interior altered but windows still with lovely stained-glass top lights. Bennison - the old Bridge Hotel was run in the 1870s by Robinsons, wine merchants. Fitzgeralds acquired it in the early 1890s when it consisted of a bar, sitting and smoking rooms, kitchen, two bedrooms, two cellars and a tenement of 10 rooms. Fitzgeralds demolished the property in 1901 and erected the existing Bridge Hotel. LISTED GRADE 2

Non-conformist church. 1887-8 by W.L. Newcombe. Coursed squared sandstone with
ashlar plinth, quoins and dressings: roofs of graduated Lakeland slate with
bright red terra-cotta ridge tiles, stone cross finial. Nave and shallow
paired transepts; chancel with vestries to rear under caretaker's flat. Aligned
north-south. Ritual south-west tower. Free Gothic style. Steps up to paired
half-glazed doors and overlights recessed in west porch. Paired pink granite
shafts, with ashlar stiff-leaf capitals, support paired 2-centred arches.
Gabled drip-mould above larger arch over porch. Two 3-light windows above,
almond-shaped window in gable peak under 5 stepped lancets with slits. Stone
cross finial; angle buttresses with stone spirelet at left. 3-stage tower has
3-light window in first stage, 2 small quatrefoil lights in second, tall paired
2-light belfry openings in third under parapet with pinnacles and spirelet;
angle buttresses. Cusped lancets elsewhere, paired in clerestory and gabled
transepts. Interior: painted plaster above boarded dado; king-post roof on
shafted brackets. 4-bay arcades have round pink granite columns with ashlar
plinths and capitals; ashlar half-column responds; double-chamfered 2-centred
arches have flower-stopped continuous drip mould. Tall double-chamfered chancel
arch with corbelled inner shaft. Barrel roof to chancel. Gallery in west end
above vestibule. Organ with stencilled decoration fills chancel; Gothic-
style central pulpit and sounding-board; similar-style communion table.
Octagonal font on green marble shafts. Glass in east and transept windows by
Kempe and Co; in west by Dearle of Morris and Co. High relief war memorial
by Gilbert with figures of soldiers and St. George and angel flanking
Crucifixion. Battle honour of Tyneside Scottish Regiment in W.W.I. Hall,
attached to west front by 3-bay arcaded passage, has paired 3-light windows
under gable containing 3 cusped slits; buttresses; roof has small gabled
ventilators. LISTED GRADE 2

Folly, later farm building and cottage. C18 and C19. Coursed squared sandstone
folly and squared sandstone rubble cottage. Battlemented folly with farm building
behind; cottage to south one storey, 3 bays. Central gabled porch flanked by
windows with flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills. Door and windows
boarded up. Ridge chimney on hipped roof. Empty at time of survey. LISTED GRADE 2