Gate piers and gates, circa 1887. Sandstone ashlar and cast iron. 3 tall rusticated
piers with roll moulded plinths, heavy cornices and ball finials on square
bases with scrolled brackets. Single and double gates have uprights with ball
and spike heads above top rail and rosettes below; spearhead dogbars, diagonal
lower braces and stout curved stile finials. Included for group value.

Hospital for sick children. 1887 by John Quilter and George Wheelhouse, for John Fleming (a Newcastle solicitor) in memory of his wife. Red brick (in Flemish Coud) with sandstone ashlar dressings;
lakeland slate roof with lead cupolas. Jacobean style. Symmetrical front of 2 and 3 storeys, 15 bays. Plinth, quoins, frieze and cornice above each floor, coped parapets. Projecting 5-bay central section has frontispiece of 3 full storeys. Glazed double doors and fanlight, in pilasters and enriched archivolt, framed by paired, half fluted pilasters and entablative, with carved spandrels, the centre section of an ashlar 2-storey canted bay. Similar pilasters on first floor support segmental pediment, with armorial cariving, and balustraded parapet. Carved name panel below central windows; windows in side sections. Flanking 2-storey bay have angle canted back to 3-storey outer bays under
shaped gables with oculi and bands. Symmetrical 5-bay outer sections have central wider windows with scrolled feet and balustraded balconies on first floor, segmental pediments above. projecting chimney breast between each pair of outer bays. All windows stone mullioned and transomed (except for first floor centre and second floor in
gabled bays, altered) in quoined surrounds. Pyramidal roof over centre bay has terracotta finial and tall flanking chimneys. All chimneys corniced and quoined. Central on ridge of outer sections are Small cupolas with lead bases, arcaded downs and wrought iron finials.
Similar treatment on returns. Interior: main staircase with elaborate cast
iron balustrade and domed rooflight; original panelling in hall and stairway. Doorway pilasters rest on 2 dated foundation stones, 1 laid by Lady Armstrong, with names of professionals, the other recording the eponymous benefactor's gift "in the Jubilee year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria in memory of Mary his loving wife who died 7th March 1882." (Later C20 insertion on right return is not of interest). Closed in 1987. The staff and patients were moved to the Royal Victoria Infirmary. The buildings became a Business Development Centre.

Shops and Offices, formerly a hotel extension. 1901-2 Designed by Cackett and Burns Dick. Ashlar with slate roofs and various brick stacks. 3 storey, 9 bays. Central doorway with double panel doors and segmental hood, plus overlight and extremely ornate keystone decoration flanked by stubby Ionic columns. To the left a bar, with central doorway and plate glass windows divided by Ionic pilasters, beyond a goods entrance. To the right 2 shop fronts with panelled doors. Above an off-centre pair of sashes under a single pedimented hood, with the left 4 pairs, and to the right 2 pairs oil plain
sashes, flanked by single plain sashes with bold rusticated surrounds, with double keystones and pediments. Above a moulded cill band, and 7 pairs of small plain sashes with a Doric column between, either side a carved cartouche and beyond single small sashes. Included for group value. McCombie - a three storey extension of Grey Street's former Turk's Head Hotel.

Extant privately built air raid shelter, brick-built with a concrete roof. In garden of large house, covered by compost heap and ivy.

The houses around the Sandpit (HER 2630) are of a range of ages and styles, but achieve the appearance of an attractive group through careful choice of natural materials, scale and proportion. Houses on the Sandpit are accessed by informal lanes that add character and charm to the area.

The houses around the Sandpit (HER 2630) are of a range of ages and styles, but achieve the appearance of an attractive group through careful choice of natural materials, scale and proportion. Houses on the Sandpit are accessed by informal lanes that add character and charm to the area.

The houses around the Sandpit (HER 2630) are of a range of ages and styles, but achieve the appearance of an attractive group through careful choice of natural materials, scale and proportion. Houses on the Sandpit are accessed by informal lanes that add character and charm to the area.

The houses around the Sandpit (HER 2630) are of a range of ages and styles, but achieve the appearance of an attractive group through careful choice of natural materials, scale and proportion. Houses on the Sandpit are accessed by informal lanes that add character and charm to the area. An archaeological investigation on land adjacent to the house in 2009 ahead of the construction of an extension concluded that the house and garden were built on a man made platform.

The houses around the Sandpit (HER 2630) are of a range of ages and styles, but achieve the appearance of an attractive group through careful choice of natural materials, scale and proportion. Houses on the Sandpit are accessed by informal lanes that add character and charm to the area.

The houses around the Sandpit (HER 2630) are of a range of ages and styles, but achieve the appearance of an attractive group through careful choice of natural materials, scale and proportion. Houses on the Sandpit are accessed by informal lanes that add character and charm to the area.