Folly, later farm building. Late C18. Coursed squared sandstone. Gothic style.
2 storeys, one bay. Main south elevation has slit openings with flat stone
lintels and sills; battlements. Timber lintel to entrance in left return. Later
brick rear extension not of interest.

House, now offices. Circa 1760. English garden wall bond brick, of varying
numbers of courses, with rendered plinth and ashlar dressings; Welsh slate
roof. 3 storeys, 2 bays. Steps to 4-panelled door with overlight, under wedge
stone lintel, at left. Sash windows with glazing bars, tripartite under
stretcher course on ground and second floors. Stone floor and eaves bands;
stone-coped parapet. Irregular hipped roof with brick chimney. Part of the
property of Trinity House, Newcastle; the Secretary's room is incorporated in
the rear of the house.

House; now offices and shop.C18; C20 shop. Incised render; Welsh slate roof,
4 storeys, 3 bays. Door at right to upper floors. Wide-boxed sashes, those on
third floor with glazing bars, have painted lintels carved as if alternately-
raised voussoirs; slightly-projecting painted stone sills to second and third
floors; central third floor blind. Quoin strips. Tumbled-in brickwork on right
return gable. Front right end chimney. Interior shows open-well stair with
ramped grip handrail from first floor, with fat turned balusters. McCombie - voussoired lintels, the right gable with tumbled-in brickwork. In 2013 this is Café Neon.

Tomb. Circa 1861 for Grainger family. Cast iron and ashlar. T-plan enclosure
formed by dwarf walls with chamfered coping, and Gothic-style arcaded railings;
lattice lower section and top decoration of acanthus buds and spearheads; square
corner posts have nail-head and cord moulding. Plain sandstone slab lies in
centre {1}. Richard Grainger (1797-1861) was the son of a Quayside porter, born in High Friar Lane. One of five children. He left school at 12 and began an apprenticeship with a carpenter who he later employed as a foreman. He married Rachel Arundale, a Newcastle tanner's daughter and Quaker. They had 13 children and some of the streets in Benwell and Elswick are named after them. Grainger replaced large areas of old Newcastle with 'architectural gems' in polished stone. His architects included John Dobson and he was supported by John Clayton, town clerk and 2000 workers. Richard bought Elswick Hall plus 800 acres of land from John Hodgson MP. However after 1839 he was in debt. He lived at Elswick for around 2 years. He lived at 5 Clayton Street (now No. 36) for the rest of his life. On the day of his funeral bells tolled, shops closed and mourners lined the route to Benwell churchyard. There is a memorial fountain to Grainger in Waterloo Street and a wall tablet inside St. John's Church.

Shops, houses and hotel. Circa 1837, probably by John Wardle, for Richard Grainger.
Sandstone ashlar; Welsh slate roof. Classical style. 4 storeys and attics, 8 bays.
3 left bays continue plain style of Nos. 61 to 67 and have rusticated ground floor
with cyma-moulded plinth, altered windows and cornice. Plain reveals to sashes
above with second-floor sill band. Second-floor band, and entablature below top
floor which has cornice and blocking course. 5 bays at right have end pavilions;
rusticated ground floor with 2 entrances in left 2 bays and 3 altered windows;
carriage entrance in right end bay. Ground-floor fascia and cornice. Upper floors
have Giant Orders: flat Doric pilasters to pavilions and attached fluted Ionic
columns defining central 3 bays. Second-floor sills moulded in central 3 and with
band in outer bays. All windows sashes with glazing bars. Second-floor entablature
with prominent cornice. Fourth storey of pavilions has pilasters; central top
balustrade; continuous cornice and blocking course, and parapet with carved pilasters
above pavilions {1}. Bought by J.H. Graham Ltd, wine and spirit merchant, brewer and hotelier in 1900 {Bennison 1995}. In 1902 Graham's workmen were working behind the hotel when they unearthed an ancient bridge, assumed to be the Upper Dean Bridge. In 1927 James Deuchar bought the Turk's Head for around £100,000. He then renovated and refurbished it. In 1928 a reporter said it was 'transformed literally from top to bottom, in admirable taste and with a shrewd perception of present-day requirements'. The Turk's Head became a Scottish & Newcastle hotel. They disposed of it in 1977. The Turk's Head closed in the early 1980s. Extended behind in 1991 as Barclay House for Barclay's Bank. In 2013 No. 69 is Union Menswear. No. 71 is Barclay's Bank. No. 73 is Sherlocks.

Shops and houses, now shops and offices. Circa 1837; probably by John Wardle, for Richard Grainger. Sandstone ashlar; Welsh slate roof. 4 storeys and attics, 6 bays.
Rusticated ground floor has panelled double door at right under large overlight;
shop windows altered C20. Ground-floor entablature with modillioned cornice. Sashes, some with glazing bars, on upper floors in architraves, those on second floor with bracketed sills, under second-floor entablature with prominent cornice. Plain third-floor sashes under top cornice. Roof has inserted mansard with square-headed windows. Ashlar-corniced ridge chimneys. Graded for importance in fine street group. Prior to the construction of Grey Street in the 1830s, the area of 41-51 was occupied by the Butcher Market on its east side and the rear of long burgage plots stretching back from the Bigg Market to the west. The land was part of a large estate which had originally belonged to the Franciscan Friary and St. Bartholomew's nunnery. No. 43-45 was occupied by John Hare music seller, piano-forte warehouseman in 1874 until at least 1898 when he applied to change the shop frontage. By 1934 the Royal Insurance Company occupied 41-45 which also accommodated offices for Dorman Long and Co., iron and steel manufacturers, and the traffic commissioners of the Northern Area. At some point between 1911-1943 the Royal Insurance Company offices had the façade of the building altered to the 4 bay façade which survives today.

Shops and houses, now shops and offices. Circa 1836 by John Dobson for Richard
Grainger. Sandstone ashlar; Welsh slate roof. Classical style. 4 storeys,
1:12:1:3:1 bays, 18 bays in all. Ground floor altered. Upper floors have giant
flat Corinthian pilasters to one-bay end and off-centre pavilions. Circa 1900
shops in Nos. 52 and 56 have curved glass and slender pilasters. No. 78 at left
has tripartite windows in architraves, with Tuscan pilasters on first floor,
bracketed sills on second; similar treatment to paired first floor window and
single second in other 2 pavilions. All windows sashes, most with glazing bars;
plain reveals to intermediate bays except for right 3-bay section which has first-
floor balustrade, recessed upper floors and deep first-floor cornice on paired
brackets linking pavilions. Second floor band to plain 12-bay section; prominent
second-floor cornice; plain reveals to third-floor windows under cornice and
blocking course. Named the Norfolk Commercial Hotel on OS second edition.

Shops and houses, now offices. Circa 1836 by Dobson for Richard Grainger.
Sandstone ashlar with c.1930 granite ground floor. Welsh slate roof. 4 storeys,
5 bays. Upper floors have Giant Corinthian pilasters flanking end bays; central
3 bays recessed. Paired sashes in plain reveals in end bays, those on first floor
with dentilled and bracketed cornices. Sashes in plain reveals in recessed centre,
with first, floor deep cornice on paired brackets, and balustrade to first floor
windows, linking end bays. Prominent entablature on second floor has dentilled
cornice. Top windows, the outer in architraves, under cornice and balustrade.
Inserted mansard roof. McCombie - a five bay pavilion, recessed centre, almost unspoilt upper floors; insensitive late 20th century ground floor.

Glassworks, now factory. Circa 1787 for the Northumberland Glass Company. English bond brick; renewed uppermost courses. Tall cone with 5 large segmental arches visible on west and south sides, 2 smaller on north, bricked up and with inserted door in north-west. Source: E. Mackenzie View of the County of Northumberland vol. II, Newcastle 1825, p. 382. Historical note: the only surviving glasshouse on the Tyne, famous since the early C17 for the manufacture of glass.

Large circular domed structure. Historic photographs show it is about 6m deep. It is sunken into the ground and lined with irregular coursed rubble stone, originally with a stone set floor and ornate railings around its rim. This is now covered by the stark light grey concrete dome added in 1954 (reputedly the largest unsupported concrete dome in Europe). The water was pumped from a well under the engine house (HER 9107) into the reservoir. It could hold 2 million gallons. 1.5 million gallons of water was extracted per 12 hours.