Shops and offices, now University Chaplaincy. Dated 1896 by W. Hope for Fairless
Harrison, tanner; 1905 additions. Steel frame and sandstone ashlar; graduated
slate roof with copper dome to turret. 3 storeys and attic, 6 irregular bays.
Pilasters, Doric Order on ground floor and Composite on first, define 4 right bays
with shop windows on ground floor and similar windows on first. 2 left bays have
office entrance at right under segmental canopy; altered ground floor to these and
to third bay. Sash windows elsewhere, those on second floor grouped, in panelled
pilasters under segmental pediments. Right corner entrance to shop under corbelled
turret. Gabled dormers over 2 left bays and 3 right, linked by pierced parapet,
have raised shaped pediments and ball finials. Tall ashlar chimneys. LISTED GRADE 2

Shops, and houses, (now offices). Circa 1784 (street laid out by David Stephenson).
Late C19 shops. Painted English bond brick with ashlar dressings; roofs mostly
graduated Lakeland slate, some Welsh slate (Nos. 38-44). Each house 3 storeys
and attic, 2 bays. Doors at left of houses. Wedge stone lintels to windows, sashes
except for C20 glazing to No. 46; architraves to those of the 3 right houses.
Projecting sills to second floor; first floor sill band. Segmental-headed dormers,
most with sashes and some with glazing bars. End brick chimneys except to Nos.
38-42 which share one roof and one chimney; other roofs step down slope. LISTED GRADE 2

Parish church. 1857-61 by John Dobson; vestry 1874; paid for by public subscription to
commemorate Rev. R. Clayton, a leading Evangelical. Gothic style. Coursed squared
sandstone with ashlar plinth and dressings; roofs of Welsh slate. Aisled nave with
galleries; chancel; south porches, one in east tower; west baptistry. Western porch
has boarded double door in splayed reveals to moulded arch. Lozenge with tracery
above under steeply-pitched gable with overlapping coping and cross finial.
Eastern porch has diagonally-boarded double door in moulded and shafted opening.
Both doors have head-stopped drip mould. 4-stage tower has door between buttresses;
and niche flanked by windows in triple arcade above; clock in third stage; tall
paired 2-light belfry openings above. Corbel table to pierced parapet with open-
arched corner turrets. Aisles have 2-light windows, square-headed below and
Decorated to galleries, in gabled bays defined by buttresses with gargoyles. Large
5-light east window with Decorated tracery. 2-light square-headed baptistry windows
under head-stopped drip moulds; roll-moulded parapet coping. Interior: painted
ashlar and plaster above boarded dado with Gothic pierced frieze; Gothic-panelled
galleries; arch-braced collar-beam roof. 4 bays to nave and 2 to chancel, with an
extra north bay, have octagonal piers with flower capitals and slightly-pointed
single-chamfered arches; similar carving to shafts of roof trusses alternating
with corbels. Chancel panelling memorial to Charles Dixon, D.L.I., died 1917,
with high-relief reredos of Last Supper. Painted Gothic arcading flanking window
has pictures of saints, reaching to roof. Memorial panel to Rev. Richard
Clayton over vestry door. Square shafted font with wood cover; baptistry and
gallery fronts 1907 memorial recorded on panel with enamel roundel, to members of
Lang family. Glass by Atkinson Bros., Newcastle in south baptistry and in north
aisle; east window of north aisle has window by J.B. Capronnier, Brussels, 1886.
Bronze memorial plaque in north aisle by F. Clubb and Son, Hampstead, to R. G.
Hoare, died 1899. Perpendicular-style link to 3-sided apse of attached 2-bay
choir vestry with 2-light windows, corner shafts, gargoyles on eaves string; high
hipped roof. LISTED GRADE 2

2 lampholders, resited after removal of railings and wall. C18 or early C19.
Cast iron. 4-sided scrolled piers, that at right with renewed urn finial.
Dwarf wall: ashlar, with low-curved coping, linking lampholders. LISTED GRADE 2

Branch Library. Opened 8 June 1938 (plaque in vestibule). Brick with ashlar-coped
plinth and ashlar door surround; pantiled roof. One high storey. 11 bays,
symmetrical. Panelled double door and fishscale overlight in high, wide surround with
architrave and recessed band above. LIBRARY in bronze letters over door. Metal
glazing bars to fixed lights, with central casements and tiled brick sills, recessed
in panels with soldier-course lintels, set in wide band of vertical courses. Felt-
covered parapet coping. Hipped roof has central square ventilator.
Interior shows high quality woodwork and levelled glass. Fluted frieze to bookshelves
lining walls. Vestibule, double doors to each side (one blocked) and single doors to
issue desk with half-glazed screen; window in librarian's room at left gives view of
library. A well-planned space. Radiating free-standing shelves and wall shelves with
fluted frieze. LISTED GRADE 2

Town boundary stone in rear wall of No. 65 Westgate Road
Boundary stone. c18. Sandstone ashlar. Tooled ashlar lintel, resited above
passage arch. Central carved shield has arms of town of Newcastle, 3 castles.
Historical note: the rear of the Westgate Road properties was formerly the boundary
of the town. LISTED GRADE 2

Houses, now with shops. Late C18. English bond brick with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof. 3 storeys, 6 bays. Shop fronts of late C19 have bracketed fascia cornice. 2 steps up to 4-panelled door and overlight in deep reveals under wedge stone lintel at right. Similar lintels to plain sashes on upper floors, those on second floor with projecting stone sills. First floor sill band; eaves band; gutter cornice. 2 end brick chimneys, that at right truncated. Empty at time of survey. LISTED GRADE 2

This building was listed Grade II in 1987 with the following description:
'Villa, now offices. Circa 1850. Flemish bond grey brick with ashlar-coped plinth; ashlar quoins and dressings; slate roof. 2 storeys, 4 bays. 6-panelled door and fanlight in moulded surround, in gabled Gothic doorcase, in second bay; sash window over. Projecting square left bay has tripartite ground floor sashes; all other windows single sashes in architraves. Aprons to ground floor windows; tile panels with guilloche and rose pattern below first-floor windows. First floor band; bracketed cornice. Low-pitched hipped roof has corniced ashlar and brick chimneys.'
Named 'Leazes Villa' on OS second edition.

These houses were listed Grade II in 1987 with the following description:
'2 pairs of houses in a terrace. Circa 1850. Yellow brick with ashlar plinth and dressings. Slate roof. 2 storeys and attics; 3 bays each. Dentilled open pediment over 4 central bays of each pair; set-back outer entrance bays have 4-panel doors and overlights in architraves; sash windows above. Wedge stone lintels and projecting stone sills to sashes with late C19 glazing bars to Nos. 18 and 19 at right, margined sashes to Nos. 20 and 21; similar pair of windows in left pediment; right pediment has segmental brick arches to windows, one extra inserted. One-storey, one-bay addition above entrance bay of No. 19. Brick chimneys on ridge running back from pediments.'

Includes Nos. 30 and 32 Bigg Market on right return. Shops and houses, now
shops. Circa 1836, probably by John Wardle, for Richard Grainger. Sandstone
ashlar; roof not visible; rendered attic. 4 storeys, 5 bays. Ground floor
altered. Upper floors have flat pilasters in giant Ionic Order, the inner ones
fluted. Central bay blind. Sashes, some with glazing bars, in plain reveals.
Second floor entablature with prominent cornice. Top cornice and blocking course
on panelled pilasters. LISTED GRADE 2*