Shops and houses, now shops and offices. Circa 1837, probably by John Wardle,
for Richard Grainger. 4 storeys, 28 houses of 3 bays each, arranged with breaks
forward and back to follow curve, and one curved bay at each end: 84 bays in
all. Sandstone ashlar, some painted; roof not visible. Ground floor C2O shops.
Upper floors have sash windows, some with glazing bars and some blocked, in
plain reveals; second floor has aprons and slightly projecting sills. Second
floor band and prominent cornice. Top cornice. No. 64 has full-width first
floor lunette inserted; Nos. 60-64 have added mansards. Second edition OS shows Albion Hotel Public House on Fenkle Street corner. Nos. 36-40 is Walmsley's Furniture, No. 42 is Dickson's Butcher's Shop, Nos. 44-48 is Bright House, No. 50 is the Cheque Centre, No. 52 is the PDSA shop, Nos. 54-58 is Noble's Amusements, No. 60 is A1 Roulette, No. 62 is Kids Style, Nos. 64-68 is Poundstretcher, No. 70 is the Salvation Army shop, Nos. 74-76 is the Mind shop, Nos 76-80 is the Nicola Adams Experience, Nos. 82-86 is Cash Converters, No. 88 is Shake-a-holic, Nos. 90-92 is BetFred.

R.C. presbytery. Circa 1860 by E.W. Pugin; additions 1869 by A.M. Dunn. Brick
with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roofs. Irregular plan with right wing
breaking forward through 45°. Tudor style. 2 storeys, 3 bays; lower 2-storey
3-bay link to Cathedral vestry at left. Main block has one-storey canted porch,
with central door in Tudor-arched surround, and stone surrounds to windows in angles.
Gabled bay at left with one window on each floor, and square stair turret with
lancets under parapet at right. Lancet and 7-light windows above porch. Wing
breaking forward has front chimney stack with offsets, flanked by arched stone
windows. Steeply-pitched roofs, hipped to main block and link, have tall polygonal
chimneys with ashlar strings and cornices.

Houses, now shops, offices and flats. Circa 1837, probably by John Wardle,
for Richard Grainger. Sandstone ashlar; roof not visible. 4 storeys, 3 bays
each. No. 26 at right projects slightly. Rusticated ground floor. Steps up
to 8-panelled doors, and overlights with glazing bars, in plain reveals;
similar reveals to sashes, most with glazing bars. Second-floor sill band and
floor bands. Prominent second-floor cornice; top cornice and blocking course.
No. 30 fire-damaged and being restored at time of survey. Richard Grainger lived at No. 36 and his office was at No. 28.

Nos 81 and 85 and house to the south of No 85
Houses and shops, now shops. Circa 1837, probably by John Wardle, for Richard Grainger. Sandstone ashlar; roof not visible. 4 storeys,12 bays, the right 6 projecting slightly. C20 shop fronts. Sash windows, some with glazing bars, in plain reveals. Band at second floor level; second-floor prominent cornice; top cornice. 2 pedimented dormers inserted in right end. Right return to Falconer's Court.
No. 81 is Hollywood Nail Icon, No. 83 is Sarah Hair & Beauty, No. 85 is Groszek.

Shops and houses, now offices. Circa 1830. Incised stucco with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof. 4 storeys, 8 bays. Reeded Tuscan pilasters and entablature frame ground-floor shops. Upper floors have plain sashes in architraves, pedimented on first floor and each with pulvinated frieze and cornice on second floor; second-floor bracketed sill string. Third floor windows have plain reveals. Top cornice and coped high parapet. Rendered ridge chimneys. 2 iron handrails
attached to right return alongside Castle Stairs: round-section rails with downcurved ends, attached on iron brackets. Recorded in 2008 by TWM Archaeology. Behind the late-Georgian frontage with an attached Victorian mid-section and 20th century additions at the rear of the site.

Shop and restaurant, now public house and offices. 1869 by R. Fairbairn for
Pumphrey and Carrick Watson. Grey brick with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate
roof with cast iron cresting. 3 storeys and attics; 5 bays. Ground floor original
elaborate wood shop front with colonettes, brackets and mouldings. Windows on
upper floors have chamfered jambs; shouldered lintels on first floor; segmental
lintels on second except in slightly-projecting centre bay which has 4 arcaded
round-headed windows. Large bracketed cornices above first floor windows;
bracketed sills and label moulds to those on second floor. Prominent eaves
cornice, bracketed over central bay. Roof has 5 round-headed dormers; Mansard
roof except for centre bay which has tall steeply-pitched hipped roof. Cast iron
crestings. Interior: staircase and first floor coffee rooms 1897 by Oliver and
Leeson in a distinctive version of the Arts and Crafts style. Slatted seats with
brass rails holding parcel racks above. Tapered pilasters frame doors. Fretwork
Moorish-style pendants in coffee rooms partly damaged at time of survey, as was
fretwork above door between rooms with inserted door of c. 1983. First floor
redecoration of the Oak Room 1914. McCombie - Cloth Market Buildings, 1869-70. White brick and sandstone, sober, but a fine mansard roof, its high centre hipped with iron crestings. On the first floor, elements survive of the 1897 coffee rooms by Oliver & Leeson in a mixed Arts and Crafts/Moorish style. There are fretwork screen downstands, slatted seats below net parcel racks, panelled stairwell with bullseye glass screen. The building was disused in 2008. In 2012, No. 44 is Pumphrey's, No. 46 is former Herbert Stanley Bynon & Son and No. 48 is Toon Takeaway.

This building was listed Grade II in 1987 with the following description:
'Bank, shops and offices. 1899 including hotel by Oliver and Leeson; completed 1903 by Cackett and Burns Dick, adapting the hotel part for use as a bank. Sandstone ashlar with grey granite porches; dark slate roof. Free Baroque style with much carved decoration. 4 storeys and attics; 3-bay curved left entrance section and 11 wide bays. Arcaded ground floor, Giant Corinthian Order above. Tuscan columns to revolving doors in left corner and to recessed entrance in central bay; bank entrance in bay 4. Deep, panelled soffits enclose lunettes with glazing bars over central office entrance and over 5 left tripartite windows; similar soffits to 5 right Diocletian windows. 2-storey oriels above central entrance, second bay either side and end bays. Plain sashes in inter- mediate bays and in third floor, tripartite over oriels. Alternately-pedimented dormers contain round-headed windows, Venetian above oriels. Mansard roof. Interior banking hall shows high quality stucco decoration by Laidler of Newcastle and mahogany fittings by Waring and Gillow of Lancaster and London designed by Cackett and Burns Dick. Source: Newcastle Daily Journal 23rd May 1903.' {1}.
Begun as shops, offices and a hotel. Big arched windows, giant Corinthian order. Marble-lined banking hall inserted 1903 by Cackett & Burns Dick for Barclays Bank, with mahogany fittings designed by Waring & Gillow and stucco ceiling by G.G. Laidler. In 2013 Nos. 22-36 is Madame Koo and Floritas Miami Bar, No. 34 is the Mint, No. 40 is Revolution bar.

This building was listed Grade II in 1987 with the following description:
'House, now shop and offices. Circa 1810 with later C19 front and shop. Brick with sandstone ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof. 4 storeys, 3 bays. Gothic pilasters to shop; house door and overlight at right. Slight projection contains windows, those on first floor with carved panels under segmental centres of head-stopped drip moulds; drip string to second-floor and architraves to third-floor windows; sill strings, bracketed on second floor. Eaves corbel table. Interior shows open- well stair with ornamental tread ends, slender turned balusters, and wreathed hand- rail and curtail; round headed niche at first turn of stair.' {1}.
Late 19th century brick. Resembles the original domestic scale. In 2013 this is a solicitors office.

House with shop. 1789; late C19/early C20 shop inserted. English bond brick
with ashlar dressings; graduated slate roof. 4 storeys and attics, 2 bays.
6-panelled house door at left and shop door at right. Wedge stone lintels to
plain sashes on upper floors, with projecting stone sills to second and third;
first floor sill band. Roof has 2 elliptical-headed dormers and one ridge
chimney.

Offices. 1888 by Stockwell and Spicer for John Burnip; 1895 alterations by W. Bell for North Eastern Railway Company. Sandstone ashlar; roof not visible. 3 storeys, 4 bays. Double door in architrave under bracketed canopy at right; floating overlight above in architrave. Sloping sills to 3 high windows in rusticated ground floor, under cornice; first-floor windows in architraves, each under high entablature; elliptical-headed second-floor windows on sill string. Top entablature with dentilled cornice and blocking course. 2 end chimneys. McCombie - simple Italianate. Narrowed in 1895 for the railway viaduct (HER 8838). Now Pizza Express.