Nonconformist church. Dated on stone in porch gable WESLEYAN/CHAPEL/1837. Hammer-dressed coursed squared sandstone with ashlar quoins and dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone gable coping. T-plan. One storey, 3 x 3 bays and projecting gabled left porch. Renewed double door under elliptical fanlight in right return of porch; pointed-arched front porch window with intersecting glazing bars. Roundheaded windows, with renewed glazing, in keyed surrounds with impost blocks and projecting stone sills, flank porch. Hipped roof. Similar windows to rear.

R.C. presbytery. Circa 1869 by A.M. Dunn. Flemish bond white brick with polychrome
brick and ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys, 4 bays. Wood porch in
second bay has ornamental panels and door in right return; dentilled cornice with
pediment over central projection. Sash windows with late C19 glazing bars, 3 in
canted first bay, have shouldered stone lintels. Lombard frieze, raised over canted
bay with upper hip. Hipped roof with irregularly-bonded polychrome brick chimneys.

Parish church. 1908 chancel by Hicks and Charlewood; 1920-22 nave and tower completed by Hoare and Wheeler. Snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings; Lakeland slate roof. West tower with north and south stair turrets; aisled nave and south porch; aisled chancel and north vestry. Gothic style. Gabled porch has elliptical-headed double door in hollow-chamfered surround with Tudor roses under crocketed ogee dripmould. 3-stage tower has tall 3-light east window, 2-light window above, and paired elliptical-headed belfry openings; set-back buttresses and tall spire. Decorated windows, 2-light except for 5-light east window. Aisles buttressed. Parapets, those of tower, nave and nave aisles battlemented. Interior: ashlar; queen-post nave roof, arch-braced chancel roof. 6-bay round arcades on chamfered square piers without capitals; aisle arches spring from shafts on piers. Chancel and tower arches; 2 arches to Lady Chapel. Rear arches to windows. Tower baptistry has stone font on pedestal and shafts with font cover; chancel arch has rood beam. Oak panelling in chancel with inscription recording it as gift from Dalgliesh family in thanksgiving for victory in 1918. Bronze plaques record gift of chancel and Lady Chapel as memorials to Hoare family. Bronze panel records gift of nave and tower by Dalgliesh family as Great War memorial. High quality glass throughout with military insignia. Source: I. Curry 'Some Aspects of Church Building in Northumberland', in W.S.F. Pickering ed. A Social History of the Diocese of Newcastle Stocksfield, 1981 {1}. Chancel of 1908 by Hicks & Charlewood; nave, aisles, tall west tower and spire completed 1920-2 by Hoare and Walker as a war memorial, gift of the Dalgliesh and Hoare families. A striking building made even more prominent by its site on the rim of Jesmond Dene. High quality of design and craftsmanship. Windows with Decorated tracery filled by contemporary stained glass with military insignia by Nicholson Studios {2}.

Houses, now offices. 1770 by William Newton. English bond brick with ashlar
plinth and dressings; Welsh slate roof. 3 storeys; 3 and 4 bays, the 2 left
projecting slightly. Renewed door in second bay from right; blocked doorway in
fourth bay and wider door inserted. Wedge stone lintels to sashes with glazing
bars; projecting stone sills to second floor; bands at ground and first floor
sills, and at first floor level. Ventilators inserted in sashes of 2 left bays.
Gutter cornice. No chimneys visible. Interior not inspected. Shown as a Deaf and Dumb Institute on OS1.

3 shops and houses, now one house. Late C18/early C19. English garden wall bond with ashlar dressings: Welsh slate roof. 5 storeys at front to 3 behind, with rise of stairs. One x 3 irregular bays. One-bay south elevation facing Sandhill has ground floor shop and door at right, both boarded in plain wood surround. Wedge stone lintel and projecting stone sill to sash window with glazing bars on each of 4 upper floors. Hipped roof. Left return has 2 shops with renewed glazing bars.

Castle curtain wall and south postern. 1168-78 and C13. Coursed squared sandstone. 2-coursed head to high arched recess containing relieving arch above round-headed arch; barrel-vaulted passage through wall. High wall extends to left and returns to the north. Wall to right of postern has blocked high arch. Addition at rear on higher level: late Cl9 by Crozier in classical style; built as part of alterations to Moot Hall (q.v.). A scheduled ancient monument. This is the only part of the original curtain wall still to exist, apart from a short piece south-west of the Black Gate. Excavated in 1960-1 by Barbara Harbottle in advance of the creation of a carpark on the north side of the wall by Northumberland County Council in 1962. The south curtain wall, which was built on the edge of a precipitous drop to The Close, originally consisted of a postern gate over the Castle Stairs and a stretch of wall running west from the postern to a corner tower behind the Bridge Hotel and separated from the High Level Bridge by a narrow lane. The medieval structures survive in a dilapidated and altered condition. The first floor of the postern was rebuilt in the 19th century and recently reduced in size. Only the south and west walls of the corner tower are still standing. The curtain wall acts as a revetment to the high ground on the north, so only its south face is visible. The castle was rebuilt in stone by Henry II between 1168 and 1178. The curtain wall with its mural towers was probably also built at the same time. There are many mentions of repairs to the castle in the 13th to 15th centuries and a few specific references to repairs of breaches in the curtain wall (see The King's Works). The castle was old and ruinous in 1589. Trench 1 was laid out across the curtain wall where the wall was barely visible on the south side. It was found that the south side of the wall had been disturbed in the 19th century. The trench was therefore extended for 10 feet both east and west along the north face of the wall. Trench 2 was designed to expose part of the south face of the foundations of the corner tower, but was abandoned because it kept filling up with water. Trench 3 was a northward extension of trench 1 but the sides of modern rubble kept collapsing so this too was abandoned. Trench 1 - the earliest structural remains were some large Roman flagstones and C2-C4 pottery. The medieval structures consisted of a stretch of the south curtain, the remains of a parapet stair on the inner face of the wall and a lower flight of steps running down from the wall face northwards into the bailey. A 12 feet wide trench had been dug for the wall foundations and was filled with stone rubble, which extended some 2.5 feet beyond the north wall face. The footings on the south side rose almost vertically for 6.5 feet from the two projecting courses at the bottom. Above the foundations, the curtain wall was built with ashlar facing stones and rubble and mortar core. The latest medieval feature was a 3 feet deep bank of clay which lay along the north face of the wall and ran over the lower flight of steps. The clay varied in colour from yellow, brown to red (indicating burning). It seems probable that this layer was deposited no earlier than the 16th century as a result of digging elsewhere on the site, and indicates that the castle defences were no longer a concern. The clay bank was covered by stones, mortar and soil, possibly the result of the demolition of the curtain in the 17th century. Black soil, stones and burnt material were dumped to create a level surface for a cobbled floor. The 18th century left little evidence apart from a small north-south wall in the centre of the trench. There was extensive building in the 19th century including industrial activity (kiln at west end of trench). Trench 2 - the footings of the tower were at least 6 feet below modern ground level. They consisted of a roughly squared plinth, projecting 8 inches from the face of the wall and 5 inches from the face of the foundations, on top of 10 courses of undressed masonry and 2 projecting courses beneath that. Trench 2 - 19th century brick floors, a fireplace and walls. The upper floor was covered by orange-brown soil containing scraps of leather and heel-plates (cobblers waste) and 19th century pottery. These buildings were demolished and the area abandoned around 1900. The work produced an accurate plan of the south curtain. The parapet stair was a new discovery. This had been built as a straight flight down the wall face, but subsequently altered so that the bottom steps ran northwards into the bailey. The excavation did not produce clear evidence for the date of construction of the curtain and steps, but they are unlikely to pre-date the rebuilding of the castle in the 12th century. It does appear that the curtain and stairs had ceased to serve a military purpose in or before the 16th century. The medieval pottery included early imported wares, cooking pots, part of a 12th century 'handled ladle' from the Rhineland, a bowl, a jug and an early 12th century pitcher from Normandy. Post medieval pottery included a sherd from a 16th century jug from Beauvais in France, cups, bowls, pots, a 17th century 'Bellarmine' jug, cooking pots, platters, 15th or 16th century Cistercian ware cup, blue and white 17th century delft vessel, rim and body of a 17th or 18th century pipkin, 18th century stoneware gin bottle inscribed ERZOGTHUM NASSAU (Duchy of Nassau). 60 clay tobacco pipe fragments were recovered dating from c.1620 to early 20th century. These include some by John Thompson of Gateshead 1663-90. Five fragments of glazed (4 were green, 1 was purple) medieval floor tiles, six fragments of 16th century chestnut-glazed tiles and six pieces of pantile. A bone bodkin was found. A probable bronze brooch, a four-lobed rivet, three fragments of a probable penannular brooch and a small strap-end buckle. Two iron nails, a fragment of a curved blade, perhaps a sickle and a damaged arrowhead with socket. In 2008 a patch of cobbles and sandstone chunks set in clay was found in the grounds of the Moot Hall. This may be the remains of a wall in the castle yard or its defences. Dated C12-13th.

County offices. Lower and front part 1910 by J. A. Bain. Rear, right extension down to the Side, and top storeys 1933 by Cackett, Dick and MacKellar. Sandstone ashlar; roof not visible. 6 storeys, 14 bays to Castle Garth; l0 storeys, 9 bays on right return to the Side. Classical style. Central double door in Greek Doric porch with triglyph frieze and prominent dentils in high entablature. 6 bays either side have central 4-bay projections. Rusticated ground floor with cornice has sashes in plain reveals. Giant Ionic Order above, pilasters at corners and half-columns defining bays of projections, with architraves to windows. Alternate pediments to the first floor in projections, the central windows on each floor paired. Moulded sills on second floor. Second floor cornice. Plain third floor has cornice with parapet to outer bays; 2 top storeys to central 5 bays, with raised balustrade on top. Later additions set back at each side on upper floors. Cartouche above porch has Northumberland County Arms. Until 1974 this was a detached part of the County of Northumberland. McCombie - County councils were created in 1889. Northumberland first had its offices in the Moot Hall (HER 6984) then in this new building which respected the classicism of the Moot Hall. Four storey and basement nucleus 1910 by Bain. Cackett Burns Dick & Mackellar extended the building backwards, upwards and downwards in 1929-34 in stripped classical style. Their ground level is on The Side. This extension has shallow pilasters at the centre and prominent cornices. It impressively solves problems of changing levels. 6 storeys face the Moot Hall and 10 face The Side. The 4th floor is the double-height council chamber with stained glass and inlaid hardwood dado. In 1974 the new county of Tyne and Wear made the building redundant. 1988-93 converted to the Vermont Hotel.

Barbican, prison and pits. Mid C13 and C17. Coursed squared sandstone; ashlar- lined prison pit. Heron pit: deep, square; no openings. Shouldered arch at right in wall to north leading to ditch. Garde-robe above pit has chamfered round-headed door. Drawbridge pit: remodelled when Black Gate built. Civil war pit: C17 defence. Sources: M. Ellison, M. Finch and B. Harbottle 'The Excavation of a C17 Pit at the Black Gate, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1975' Post-Medieval Archaeology v.13 (1979) pp. 153-181. B. Harbottle 'The Castle of Newcastle upon Tyne'
Chateau-Gaillard IX-X, 1982, pp. 407-418; M. Ellison and B. Harbottle 'The Excavation of a Cl7th-Century Bastion in the Castle of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1976-81' Archaeologia Aeliana 5 XI pp. 135-264. (1983). A scheduled ancient monument. Dated C13-17th.

Gatehouse of castle. Built in the reign of Henry III between 1247 and 1250. The last major addition to the Castle defences, which strengthened the defence of the 12th century north gate (to which the Black Gate was connected by a barbican HER 9012). An arched passage flanked by two towers, which were approached by a turning bridge at front and rear, which could be closed using counterweights and the gate sealed by a portcullis. The two upper floors were added in the early 17th century when the gatehouse was turned into a house by Alexander Stephenson who leased it from King James I. Restored 1883 for the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings; roof of pantiles. Oval plan lower part, upper octagonal, with square front projection. 4 storeys and attic: 3 bays. Central arch below 6-light Jacobean window with cusped niches either side; floors above have windows of 4 and 3 lights, all square-headed, stone-mullioned and transomed, with label moulds. Similar style 2-light windows in side bays; wood cross window inserted at right in second floor. Slits above many-chamfered base courses. Steeply-pitched hipped roof has central dormer; 2 end chimneys. Rear stone stair with open landing on first floor and Jacobean-style wood balcony is part of C19 adaptation. Pointed barrel vault to passage through gate with side guard chambers, which have ribbed vaults. Drawbridge slots to receive counterweights. A scheduled ancient monument. The name Black Gate refers to Patrick Black, a London merchant who occupied the building later in the 17th century. In the 19th century there were tenements and a public house in the Black Gate. The area around the Black Gate was cleared for the railway in the 1840s. The Black Gate was built at the bottom of the 12th century ditch. The gatehouse passage and the road in front of the Black Gate have been archaeologically excavated (event 84). This revealed that there were four distinct spaces which remained in use until c1400. A bridge pit was located in the front half of the gatehouse passage, with evidence of a turning bridge that gave access to the Castle. This was contemporary with a second turning bridge located in the barbican. The Black Gate gave access to a narrow street that connected the Long Stairs (HER 6571) with the upper end of The Side. This street can be seen on Hutton (1772) and Corbridge (1723). It is portrayed as a broader street by Speed (1610). Harbottle deduced that this street must have run close to the outer lip of the Castle ditch. The southern part of the street was known as the Castle-Mote. Dated C13th.

Farm cottages. Mid C19. Squared sandstone rubble with roofs of plain tiles. 2 blocks in a row. One storey; each cottage 3 bays. Each has central gabled porch (Nos. 1 and 2 latticed wood) with boarded door under flat stone lintel; slit above. Flanking 4-light wood-mullioned-and-transomed windows have flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills. Ridge chimneys on hipped roofs. Listed for group considerations. Nos. 2 and 3 empty at time of survey.