Offices. 1884; by Austin and Johnson, for Tyne Improvement Commission; 1911
3 floors added by W.H. Wood. Now Port of Tyne Authority offices. Sandstone ashlar on pink granite plinth; roof of plain tiles.4-storey centre, 5-storey wings, and attics; 2:3:2 bays. Double door, under pulvinated frieze and fanlight with ornamental iron grille, in hollow-chamfered reveal. Rusticated ground floor. Bracketed sills and keyed voussoirs to ground floor windows
under Greek-key band; projecting wings have first floor windows in pedimented
Gibbs surrounds; arcaded central bays have balcony, and panelled soffits, to
round-headed windows; first floor dentilled cornice. Ionic colonnade and
balustrade to central third floor windows, flanked by windows in lugged
architraves. All sashes except for arcaded leaded lights. Cartouches with
arms of constituent authorities under deep, bracketed top cornice. 3 central
dormers have lugged architraves and pediments. Wings have similar windows on
fourth floor under dentilled cornices and high hipped roofs, each with a
dormer in Ionic surround. High, corniced ashlar chimneys. Now The Bewick House public house. McCombie - Gibbsian-Palladian style with arms of the local authorities involved below the cornice.

The Benwell Lodge to Benwell Towers was constructed at the entrance of the Towers estate between 1857-1858. According to Farrier, this followed the rerouting southwards of Benwell Lane following an exchange of boundary land between William Isaac Cookson of Benwell Tower and Joseph Straker of Benwell Old House. The Lodge was presumably constructed to mark the new entrance of Tower estate.
The Lodge featured a small garden in front of the south facing bay window until the widening of Benwell Lane in 1923, and has been a private residence since the late 1970s. The Lodge at Benwell Towers was Grade II Listed in 1987, Historic England listing reads:
Lodge to Benwell Towers. Mid C 19. Snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings and plinth; stone slate roof. Tudor style. One storey and attic, 3 bays. Gabled porch right of centre has shouldered ledged boarded door; shouldered windows with glazing bars, 2-light at left and single at right; 2 sash windows with late C19 glazing bars in gabled dormers with bargeboards. Central ashlar chimney with yellow pot. Left return has triangular-section bay window to street.

2 Gate piers to Benwell Towers. Mid C19. Sandstone ashlar. Tall square piers with plinth, corbelled band and high pointed coping.

Originally a horse racing site, later greyhounds. The last horse race was in 1938. The site was built over with council houses known locally as the Racecourse Estate.

Designated in 1975. Located within the medieval core of Houghton-le-Spring (HER 280). The town is now split into two by the busy A690 road in 1970. This road destroyed Sunderland Street and severed Church Street, with the loss of many 18th and 19th century buildings. The fundamental historic character of the CA is derived in large part from the ecclesiastical enclave comprising the church, its associated buildings and green spaces. Elements of St. Michael's Church (HER 263) are 12th century. The Conservation Area also includes the Tudor-style old rectory (HER 264), Kepier grammar school (HER 265), almshouses (HER 7012 and 7013), rectory arch (HER 7011), war memorial (HER 10976), Lilburn House (HER 7014). Church Street has charm and diversity with non-uniform terraced buildings of 18th and 19th century date. Decorative features are kept to a minimum with simple doorcases and stone dressings above windows. Wheeler House has decorative stone strings and elaborate attic gables. The Broadway has remained largely unchanged in 200 years. It was a wide tree lined street (now hard landscaped). It was formerly part of a local tram route (1905-1925). Rectory Park was landscaped in the 1940s when the Old Rectory became council offices and the grounds became a public park. The park has mature arboreal planting and a formal garden. The Gilpin Thorn (HER 7850) has historical associations to Rector Bernard Gilpin. The Old Brewery (HER 1600) is a fine large scale stone structure that dominates the approaches from the south.

Extra-parochial peculiar church - it was without a parish because it combined the charities of the medieval Bridge Chapel and the medieval hospital of St. Mary Magdalene. 1825-30 by John Dobson. Sandstone ashlar; Welsh slate roof. Aisled nave clasping west tower; shallow chancel with north and south porches. Modified Early English style. Wrought iron gates to west porch in tower with cross-ribbed vault and high arches to aisles and nave. 4-stage tower has high moulded west arch, with triple nook shafts flanked by blind lancets under pierced sloping parapets. Double flying buttresses to second stage with blind arcade; clock in low third stage. Tall, empty 2-light belfry openings. Pierced parapet with corner spirelets in octagonal buttresses, and centre-side pinnacles. Lancet windows, paired in 5-bay nave and triple with shafts in east front; tall pinnacles on buttresses, angle at corners. INTERIOR has plaster above wainscotting; ribbed cross vaults to nave and aisles on slender quatrefoil piers. Galleries on 3 sides, the west containing 1837, organ inserted in 1960. East glass 1881; other C19 glass in north aisle. White marble memorial to Robert Wasney died 1836 by C. Tate - woman standing beside altar with profile portrait. Battle honours of 1899-1902 in South Africa War and 1914-1918 in Great War, of 6th Northumberland Fusiliers, framed at east end of north aisle. Historical note: built by the Trustees of the St. Mary Magdalene and Holy Jesus Hospitals to replace the mediaeval chapel at the end of Tyne Bridge. Newcastle's first true Gothic Revival church. Charming Early English design to replace the medieval chapel in Sandhill. McCombie - Gothic in a personal interpretation of Early English west tower with very high slender bell-openings, an openwork effect; clasping aisles of the same height as the nave. The buttresses have tall pinnacles; flying buttresses over the pierced sloping west parapets support the tower. Tall lancet windows, paired in the five-bay nave, triple with shafts in the east front. Dobson's west door and gates have been replaced with full-height plate glass and iron. Large light interior, with slim clustered piers from which plaster vaults with stone ribs spring over nave and aisles. Trefoil panelled galleries, part of Dobson's design, were built in 1837 and provided extra seating. The stone stairs are integral with the organ loft. No deep chancel, only a slight projection to hold the altar. The Master of the Hospital at the time of rebuilding was Robert Wastney, a noted Evangelical. There is a white marble tablet to Robert Wastney died 1836 by C. Tate. Reordered c.1970 with a large projecting platform. Organ case of 1837, inserted in the west gallery 1960. Stained glass - east window by Baguley 1881. Malta memorial window by Helen Whittaker 2000. Wall plaques, north aisle, west) to the Hawks family of Gateshead Ironworks.

This building was listed Grade II in 1971 with the following description:
'Barrack guard house and office, later restaurant, disused at time of inspection. 1804-06, by James Wyatt, Surveyor General to the Ordnance Board, restaurant 1970-90. Brown sandstone ashlar guard house with ashlar gable stacks, rear brick block, with slate hipped and gabled roof. Single-depth plan with offices to the left. EXTERIOR: Single storey; windowless street front, 9-window rear office elevation. Guard house gable has a coped pediment with raised comer blocks, a central raised round-headed niche in a blind recess beneath an overhanging blind oriel on moulded stone brackets, rising to the top of the pediment, and containing 3 rifle slots beneath a blind lunette; 4 courses from the ground the quoins are replaced by wide cast-iron blocks. To the left a coped wall with flat-headed opening and rusticated pier to former barracks entrance; Brick block has flat-headed openings, boarded at time of survey (1994). INTERIOR: Not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Attached former barracks wall with flat coping, forming the front wall to the office, extends approximately 100m to the north-west. HISTORY: The Ordnance Board were responsible for Artillery barracks during the Napoleonic War. One of a pair of striking and unusual guard houses to Fenham Artillery Barracks, connected by a late C20 glazed archway to the gateway (not of special interest), and part of a group with the former sergeants' messes (qqv). (Mackenzie: History of Newcastle: 1827-: 710; Archaeologia Aeliana, 5th series: Breihan J: Army Barracks in the NE in the Era of the French Revolution: 1990-: 171).'
Opened as The Inn on the Park in 1986, later becoming the Cushy Billet in 1995 and was relaunched as The Leazes Inn in 1998. In 2015 a restaurant - Dragoni Nu Bar.

Lodge. Probably 1857; for the Whittle Dean Water Company: engineer Robert
Nicholson (died 1855 and succedded by his nephew J.F. Tone). Snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings and plinth; Welsh slate roof with sloped gable copings. Tudor style. One storey, 3 bays. Central Gothic-panelled door in long-and-short block jambs under flattened Tudor
arch. Mullioned cross windows in similar surrounds. Low-pitched roof has central chimney. Square bay window in left return. Source: R.W. Rennison Water to Tyneside Newcastle 1979, pp 83-4.

Offices, Circa 1880. Polychrome brick and ashlar dressings; graduated dark slate roof. 3 storeys, 3 bays. Outer bays contain doors under cornices and drip moulds; slender glazing bars to central window under high wide arch with drip string continuous over windows above doors; all ground-floor drips with flower stops and brackets. Ground-floor cornice. Pilasters flank first floor sashes with drip strong; second floor has central round-headed window with curved projecting sill on bracket; and cartouches flanking windows. Top entablature with long dentils; attic sash with pilasters, cornice and semi-circular pediment with carved tympanum and finial.

Public house. Circa 1830. Coursed squared sandstone with pecked ashlar dressings and quoins; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings, and ashlar plinths to ashlar left and yellow brick right end chimneys. 2 storeys, 3 windows. Central joined boarded door: in stop-chamfered alternate-block surround; chamfered surrounds also to paired ground-floor sashes and to first-floor sash windows, the right boarded up, one with glazing bars. Ground floor string. Roof has triangular-section gable coping resting on moulded kneelers. Left chimney corniced. Right quoins incised with flood level marks 1856, 1830, 1815 and 1771. Tyne and Wear County Council plaque at left commemorates association of George Stephenson with Water Row pit, where from 1798 to 1801 he was in charge of Robert Hawthorn's new pumping engine and his father, Robert, was fireman. Historical note: The 1771 flood reached unprecedented heights and destroyed Newcastle bridge. Many different names in the 1880s Boat, Ferry Boat Inn, Boah House and then Boathouse Inn. The pub was sold in the early 1950s to Newcastle Breweries from the Duke of Northumberland's estate and refurbished. Sold to private owners in 1987.