Shops and houses, now restaurants and offices. Circa 1837 by Benjamin Green
for Richard Grainger. Part of left return of Theatre Royal in Grey Street.
Sandstone ashlar, Welsh slate roof. Restaurants have circa 1900 curved shop
windows with slender pilasters, leaded upper lights and round heads, flanking
central recessed glazed doors. Central office entrance has panelled double
door and overlight with glazing bars. Upper floors have giant Tuscan Order
to 2 right bays which project slightly. Architraves to all windows; those in
2 right bays have cornices to first and projecting stone sills to second floors.
Second-floor entablature. Plain reveals to top sashes under eaves band and
cornice.

Listed building description - Blackfriars south range (formerly listed as Nos. 12 to 17 consecutive) G.V. I Dominican Friary, later Company Halls and almshouses, now restaurant and tourist information centre and exhibition space with Smiths' Company Hall. Medieval with C18 and C19 alterations; restored 1978-81. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof at left to Cordwainers' hall, other roofs pantiles with 2 rows of stone slates at eaves. Cordwainers' Hall rebuilt 1843 by John Wardle (dated door head). 2 storeys; 4:3:3:3 windows. Slightly-projecting left bay has boarded, studded door in moulded Tudor-arched surround with date in spandrels and commemorative panel above; raised dripmould contains carved Cordwainers' arms. Single cusped window above. Plainer Tudor arch to a second door flanked by 3-light casements with rounded top corners; cusped 2-light windows above, all with label moulds. Eaves string and roll-moulded parapet. Butchers' hall: rebuilt 1739; renewed door at right and ground-floor horizontal sliding sashes under renewed stone lintels. Renewed cross windows with wedge stone lintels above, and small blocked rectangular window. Tanners' Hall: renewed chamfered 2-centred passage arch at right to cloister; 4 lancets with some renewed masonry and deep splayed reveals. 3 renewed cross windows with flat stone lintels above. Buttress with offsets between this and Smiths' Hall which has resited carved Company arms dated 1679 above studded boarded door in shaped, moulded surround; this bay, added in C19, has top window in gothic stone surround. 3 ground-floor lancets and 2 cross windows above, flanking commemorative panel dating repairs of 1770. Interior shows wall benches in position of medieval refectory benches. Upper floor has chimney piece dated 1739 in Butchers' Hall; oval table with benches and turned balustrades in Tanners' Hall; day stairs alongside passage; round table with benches and iron railings, wall benches, chimney piece with paired classical attached columns, in Smiths' Hall. Source: Barbara Harbottle "Black Friars, Newcastle upon Tyne" in Royal Archaeological Institute Proceedings 1976 pp 112-114. A scheduled ancient monument.
McCombie - The medieval kitchen became the Cordwainers almshouse, reconstructed in Tudor style in 1843-4 by John Wardle with an extra floor on the inner face. The friary refectory with its lancet windows became the Tanners and Butchers almshouses. The upper floor was given cross-windows in the early 18th century. Dated C13th.

Houghton Cut was dug through the Magnesian limestone hills above Houghton-le-Spring in the late 19th century for the Sunderland to Durham road (HER 3208). The cutting had to be widened for the A690 in 1970.

Bank, pre 1890 with 1890 entrance and left bays by W.L. Newcombe for North British and Mercantile Assurance Co. in style of existing building. Sandstone ashlar with pink granite plinth and door surrounds; roof not visible. 4 storeys, 5 bays and one narrow bay set back at left. Granite surround to central double door, under panelled stone head and fanlight, in rusticated sandstone door case with coved round arch; large leaf brackets to balcony above set-back bay has double door in architrave
with pediment. Sash windows, tripartite in outer ground-floor bays, except for third floor casements. Architraves to all floors, lugged on second and third. Shell ornament in bracketed segmental pediments of first floor windows. Moulded plinth; projecting quoins; gutter to long brackets of deep cornice. Plainer first bay. Roof parapet has square balusters; central brick chimney.

The 1851 lists various tenants at 25-27 Mosley Street. Christie's Directory of 1874-75 lists the North British and Mercantile Insurance Company in No. 25 and Moses and Brown, Mercers in No. 27. The 1881 census lists James Robson, silversmith and his daugher Elizabeth Robson in residence at 25-27 Mosley Street. In 1883 the cellar was extended and the lavatories improved. In 1890-91 a new entrance and leftt bays were added by W.L. Newcombe for the North British and Mercantile Assurance Co. Two strongrooms were added in the cellar. Nos. 25 and 27 were amalgamated into one building. There were further changes in 1907 and 1911. The third floor was the caretaker's flat. A lift was inserted in 1952 and internal partitions removed to create an office plan office. A bridge linked to the building across Drury Lane. A new lift was installed in 1955.

The ground floor is now a bar (Soho Rooms).

Shops and offices. 1870 by Alfred Swan. for Mawson and Swan 's. Ashlar. Baroque style. 4 storeys and attic; 9 bays, divided into 3 sections of 3 bays each by giant Corinthian pilasters resting on channelled, rusticated ground floor. Side sections have subsidiary divisions of channelled piers and enriched string courses; recessed windows with moulded surrounds. Centre section has iron balustrade to first floor; architrave and cornice to first-floor central window. Full entablature with projecting cornice on brackets, crowned by blocking course and 4 giant urns. McCombie - the retained façade of an 1870 building. Alfred Swan was nephew of Sir Joseph Wilson Swan. The building was rebuilt in 1990 as Kelburn House. Swan's early experiments with incandescent light bulbs were done here.

Listed building description - Blackfriars. East range. (formerly listed as Friars' Green) G.V. I Dominican friary, later Company halls and almshouses, now exhibition, offices and architecture workshop. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings; pantiled roof with 2 rows of stone slates at eaves. Medieval and C19 by M.H. Graham. 2 storeys, 5 bays. Chapter House at left has central 2-centred chamfered arch in chamfered surround; 2 cusped lights on shafts in similar-shaped arches either side; inserted door and balcony, and casement with flat stone lintel and sill, on first floor (former Bakers' and Brewers' Hall). Rebuilt Fullers' and Dyers' Hall has doors to office and stairs at right under shouldered arches; joggled lintels to 3-light casements on each floor, with relieving arch to ground floor. Small rectangular window over doors. One bay at right has flat stone lintel to door of Smiths' undercroft; cross window above. Interior of chapter house, down 2 steps, has C15 grave slab(matrix for brass), attached to wall, excavated from friary church. A scheduled ancient monument.
McCombie - The south end of the east range, with three lancet windows, was the friar's warming house. This became the Smiths hall. At the east end there is a big door surround dated 1679 carved with the Smiths' arms - brought from their property in Low Friar Street by Thomas Oliver in 1827-8 for a new stair extension. The wall above was gabled. A large traceried first-floor window was removed between 1709 and 1803 when cross windows were inserted and the gable lowered. Dated C13th.

Bank, now offices. 1908 by Newcombe and Newcombe for Alliance Assurance Co. Ltd. Sandstone ashlar with pink granite plinth and porch. Roof not visible. Palladian style. 3 storeys, 5 bays and 3-bay curved left entrance section. High
ground floor with plinth, deeper at right on slope, containing right end door with overlight in architrave; left corner entrance, of Tuscan columns flanked by narrow windows, holds recessed double door, and overlight with radiating glazing bars, under
swagged frieze and cornice. Above this, giant Ionic Order containing pedimented first-floor window and second-floor window in lugged architrave. Elevation to Mosley Street has tall round-headed ground-floor windows, pediments to those on
first floor except in the outer bays which have swagged segmental-headed surrounds; lugged architraves on second floor. Deep modillioned cornice. Tall, corniced, ashlar chimneys. McCombie - common but attractive combination of sandstone ashlar walls and a granite plinth.

Offices and restaurant, formerly a public house (White Hart Hotel). Late C16, C18 and 1889. Facade added in 1898 by R Burns Dick of Newcastle. Brick with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. Three windows, 4 storeys.
Street front in Baroque style has original tripartite shop-front with recessed half-glazed door to right, and passage entry beyond. Fascia board above. Upper floors have a projecting central bay. First floor has single broad sash flanked by single narrow sashes all with plain lower sashes and upper glazing bar sashes. All windows have recessed ogee shaped ashlar heads. Above similar windows in same arrangement, central window has triangular iron balcony and all these windows have segment arched brick heads with ashlar keystones. Top floor has central brick dormer with curved ashlar pediment with central obelisk, flanked by single narrow dormer windows with glazing bar casements.
Rear facade to 'Ship's Entry' has 4 storey nineteenth century block to west. To east, a 3 storey 8 window brick facade with early box-framed to 3 eastern bays. Most windows have glazing bar sashes though some C17 cross casements do survive.
INTERIOR has chamfered spine beams to rear wing. Recorded in 2002 by NCAS. In 2013 No. 10 is the former Java Jim's Coffee House.
In 2019 the building was recorded by Addyman Archaeology to record newly exposed historic fabric after unmonitored soft-stripping building works.

Includes: Former Goods Station Warehouse, POTTERY LANE
Goods station warehouse, now general workshops. c1910. Designed by William Bell, for the North Eastern Railway Co., engineer LG Mouchel of Hennebique, using patent ferro-concrete, steel-framed roof with glazed strips and boarded rear gable. Simplified Classical style. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 4 windows x 3-2 storeys, 14 windows. North-east front to Forth Banks has full-width pediment on 4 panels defined by wide shallow pilasters, with first floor cornice and top entablature. Renewed metal roller shutter to vehicle entrance at right under flat lintel and wide overlight; small 3-light window above has slightly projecting sill and lintel. Similar treatment to mullion and transom windows, on ground floor with 6 lights, on first floor with 6 lights below and 3 lights above concrete transom, and top floor with 6 lights. Pediment has wide surround which merges with similar surround to central slatted oeil-de-boeuf. Roof half hipped at rear; full length lights and rear boarded gablet. Left return to Pottery Lane in similar style has 14 windows, 6 windows to right on 3 storeys, 8 windows to left on 2 storeys. Rear elevation, only partly visible, has 4 arches at upper level with stone imposts and keystones; shared pier removed from central pair. North-west wing 2 storey with 2 windows. Similar construction and materials, with raised corrugated-iron roof structure of unknown function. INTERIOR: not inspected.
Part of the goods station were recorded between 2011-2013 including the a photographic survey of the ground floor following removal of office partitioning and elevation drawings of the western façade of the building which was formerly the eastern gable wall of the 19th century goods shed (HER 4321).

Includes: Northern Goldsmiths, Nos.2-8 PILGRIM STREET
Jewellers shop with offices and workshops above. C1895, altered c1932. Designed by James Cackett, altered by Burns Dick and Mackellor. Ashlar with ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roofs. Corner site. 4 storeys and attics. EXTERIOR: Blackett Street front has 6 window front arranged 2:4. Original shopfronts with later etched plate glass windows. Single rusticated pilaster with to left recessed glass doorway. First floor has deeply set sashes in rusticated and moulded ashlar surrounds, that section to right with a central tripartite window with triple keystone. Above similar window arrangement with pilasters and Venetian window to right. Above again 6 round headed windows with coupled Doric columns, those to left topped with an ornate pediment. Attic has single dormer window above to right with 2 sashes and shallow pediment. Curved corner section curved shop windows. First floor has blind central opening with cantilevered square clock topped with a female figure added c1932 and designed by Alfred Glover. Either side single similar round headed openings with shell hoods. Above canted projecting bay window with 3 sashes and columns. Set back above 3 sashes also with columns. Corner topped with circular cupola with round arched windows and ornate carved decoration, topped with a painted dome.
Pilgrim Street front has 6 windows arranged 4:2. Original shopfronts with later etched plate windows, to left single doorway with rusticated surround. This façade very similar to that on Blackett Street. INTERIOR: not inspected. James Cackett c.1890. Clock - Cackett and Burns Dick and figure by Alfred Glover, 1932. A landmark corner in Newcastle - distinguished by the Golden Lady and clock and the red domed roof which houses a peal of bells which were once linked to the clock. A local gemstone company. Many of the original fittings survive in excellent condition. Because of the need for a high level of light in showrooms and work rooms, there is an unusual high percentage of windows. The sandstone walls are decorated with pilasters, columns, turned window heads and cornicing. There are bands of red sandstone across the first floor and an extraordinary decorated projecting bay window behind the Golden Lady and a delicate original shopfront on both sides. McCombie - tall showy building, fine original shopfronts, bracket clock (HER 12216), some excellent original fittings and showcases by Sopwith.