Hotel, now shops. Includes No. 118 Grey Street. Dated 1893 on top panels; by
Oliver and Leeson. Circa 1982 ground-floor alterations. Sandstone ashlar; dark
slate roof. Curved corner site to Grey Street. 4 storeys, 8 bays, the 2 at
left end and that at right end wider. Hotel entrance in wide right bay.
Ground floor entablature has bracketed cornice supporting first floor balconies
(removed from 2 left end bays). Giant Composite Order to first and second floors;
Venetian windows in wide bays of first floor, round-headed windows in 5 bays
of curve, with ornamental glazing bars in heads under keyed arches. Second-floor
sashes in architraves under entablature with prominent modillioned cornice.
Plain top sashes with fluted band between heads of windows. Top cornice and
parapet with 3 carved panels: 18 F/M 93 on bays flanking curve and ELDON
BUILDINGS at centre, in Art Nouveau lettering, under alternate pediments.
High-relief coat of arms in central pediment. LISTED GRADE 2

Shops and offices. Circa 1903 by Simpson, Lawson and Rayne. Sandstone ashlar with
dark granite plinth and doorcases; Welsh slate roof with copper domes. Rich Art
Nouveau/Baroque style. 5 storeys and attics; 3 wide bays and canted corner bays.
Curved central section has double door between attached Jacobean Ionic columns
with exaggerated entasis , side lights and fanlight with Art Nouveau glazing
bars. Plainer Ionic cases to shop doors in corner bays; shops have slender
pilasters, with long brackets to cornice, and top flowing glazing bars; that on
right concealed by c.1970 fascia. Upper floors have shallow canted oriels at
varying heights; keystones, scrolled cornices, balustrades, strapwork and top
garlanded frieze; corners have bracketed balconies and round, corbelled-out
turrets. Ornate copper dome over left turret, 2-tiered with oriental finial;
right clock dome in similar style. High central gable, shaped and scrolled,
with 2 round-headed windows and oculus; intermediate square-headed dormers
each have 2 diagonally-placed high pyramidal roofs with swept eaves; similar
roofs to tiers of small lights in high hipped roof. 2 high, corniced ashlar
chimneys. LISTED GRADE 2*

This building was listed Grade II in 1971 with the following description:
'Offices. 1878 by Austin, Johnson and Hicks; later rear addition. Sandstone ashlar with granite plinth and doorcase; graduated dark slate roof. Palladian style. 3 storeys and attics; 7 bays. Rusticated arcaded ground floor has vermiculate plinth. Giant Ionic Order frames upper floors. Central doorcase, with fluted pilasters and pulvinated frieze, and round-headed windows recessed between pilasters. Carved tympanum above entrance is flanked by large consoles of square first-floor balcony; serpentine balconies, with bowed railings, to other first-floor windows, all in architraves under bracketed alternate pediments. Second-floor windows in archi- traves. Entablature inscribed NORTHERN ASSURANCE CO. LTD. ESTABLISHED 1836 has prominent modillioned cornice. Roof has balustrade and pedimented dormers. Right return to Groat Market of 2 bays, the second later, in similar style.' {1}.
1878 with 1890s extension to Groat Market. Elaborate classical front with rusticated ground floor and pedimented piano nobile windows with frivolous serpentine balconies. LISTED GRADE 2

Walls, piers, gates and railings. 1883 by R.J. Johnson. Sandstone ashlar and
wrought iron. 2 tall piers at west entrance, one at east end of wall south of
Youth Employment Centre, and one to north-west. 3 rusticated square piers with
plinths, cornices and ball finials, and one without cornice and finial at north-
west. Dwarf stone walls with moulded coping to west and south of building. Spear-
head railings with ramped top rails, panelled principals with urn finials. Wide
gates on west, with overthrow, and plainer single gate on south. LISTED GRADE 2

Public house. 1902 by J. Oswald and Sons. Faience ground floor; brick with
ashlar dressings above; roof of plain tiles with copper dome. 4 storeys, one
bay to Cloth Market x 3 to High Bridge on left return. 6-panelled door at right
under triglyph frieze; similar door in left canted corner. Green and yellow
ground floor has panelled and garlanded Ionic pilasters supporting entablature
with leaf-bracketed frieze; original BEEHIVE HOTEL in low relief on fascia
beneath prominent cornice. Upper floors have ovolo-moulded stone mullioned-and-
transomed windows, with first-and second-floor cornices; sash window on third
floor under wide eaves. Canted corner has blank first floor with wrought iron
brackets holding renewed hanging sign; second-floor sash. Consoles to slightly-
projecting top window. Pilastered angle turret has open arches under roundels
and frieze; ogee dome has four very small lucarnes, with slender swept pyramid
roofs, and tall spike finial. LISTED GRADE 2

Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition of 1890.

Toll house; later Coroner's Court, now offices. Circa 1870. Sandstone ashlar
with plinth; Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 bays. 2 steps to 4-panelled door
with overlight in segmental-headed surround with pilasters and voussoirs.
Keyed round-headed raised surrounds and bracketed sills to flanking sashes; 3
sashes above in plain reveals; all with late Cl9 glazing. End pilasters with
channelled rustication. Cornice and blocking course. LISTED GRADE 2

This building was listed Grade I in 1954 with the following description:
'Large late C16 merchant's house, altered. Dressed stone ground floor, upper facade of C18 or early C19 English bond brick with a second floor band. Pantiled roof. Late Cl7 timber-framed rear extension rests on an older stone base and re-uses some original windows. Brick nogging and a corrugated iron roof. Front of No. 28 four storeys, five bays; No. 30 three storeys, three bays. Plain door and sash windows, some with glazing bars. Inside the unity may be seen. The first and second floors of the front range each consist of one enormous room whose chief feature is a ceiling of close-set beams completely plastered, with quasi-classical side mouldings and bands of renaissance ornament below and between. Paired birds, flowers, scrolls and arabesque patterns involving animals appear. The thistle is a frequent motif. The ornament may be compared to C16 Scottish painted work. A contemporary stone fireplace with flattened Tudor arch and sharp shallow roll mouldings is on first floor. Stone mullioned windows of two, three and five lights have a double hollow chamfer. In the rear extension is a handsome oak staircase with urn and spiral turned balusters, thick moulded handrail, and moulded closed string. The ground floor is high and plain, suggesting that it may always have had a mercantile use. Much of the second floor ceiling had fallen down and the building was in poor condition at time of survey.'
This building contains the earliest surviving plasterwork in Newcastle. Grace McCombie describes it as 'remarkable allegorical schemes of c. 1611'. The design is based on engravings published in the Low Countries. English Heritage conducted tree ring analysis in 2009 and found that the samples of oak taken from the buildings related to no less than three phases of felling from relatively local woodland sources. The timbers date from the mid 15th to 17th centuries. Some timbers predate the building of the merchants houses and may be reused from earlier structures.
Excavations inside Nos. 28-30 The Close revealed 3rd century Roman deposits containing late Samian ware, black-burnished 2 dishes and cooking pots, Lower Nene Valley beakers, an Oxfordshire mortarium, S Spanish amphora for olive oil and grey oxidised wares. The Roman material may have eroded from the Castle Garth via the gully on the site of Long Stairs. Most of the Roman material was residual - recovered from the 13th century dumped material, but it may have originally come from the Roman waterfront.
The 13th century waterlogged deposits were rich in ceramics and faunal remains. These deposits were a series of dumps associated with large timber uprights - waterfront reclamation. Leather show soles, wood and botanical material was preserved. Tumbled masonry could represent levelling of structures as part of the reclamation infilling. The lower courses of the spring of a vault arch were recorded in a fireplace in the front room. This may be part of a solar (private apartment) with a cellar which is attested in 14th century documents. Other medieval fabric included a wall footing and several stone drains.
Late 17th or early 18th century structures included a brick platform and post uprights - a stair-base of an early house. There was also a sub-circular fire installation - a kiln, oven or pot-boiler base.
A 19th century brick well and paved stone surface were the latest features recorded.

Roman Catholic Cathedral. Circa 1844;a major composition by A.W.H Pugin.
Tower completed c. 1872 by A.M. Dunn and E.J. Hansom. Coursed squared sandstone
with ashlar dressings; roofs of graduated slates with overlapping stone gable
copings; stone spire. Aisled nave and chancel without division; south-west
polygonal chapel now entrance porch, and to east of this the tower. Decorated
style. West double door with elaborate hinges in moulded and shafted surround;
5-light window above flanked by niches with figures; reticulated tracery to 3-
light west aisle windows under gables; gabled buttresses. South door, in tall
tower, similar to west door; upper stages of tower have cusped lancets, slits
and 2-light belfry openings under crocketed dripmould with fantastic beast
finials; quatrefoil pierced parapet has corner pinnacles with spirelets; tall
octagonal spire has crocketed lucarnes, weathercock finial. 3-light aisle
windows, 6-light at east. Interior: plaster above boarded dado with tiled frieze;
angel corbels support scissor - braced roof trusses; round piers to 7-bay nave
and chancel, with moulded arches. Caen stone altar and reredos with much
carving; similar style lectern and pulpit. LISTED GRADE 1

House, now bank. Circa 1837, probably by John Wardle, for Richard Grainger.
Painted sandstone ashlar; roof not visible. 4 storeys, 3 bays. Channelled
rustication to ground floor; left bay removed and recessed door inserted under
first floor corner; ground floor windows altered. Upper floors have sashes with
glazing bars in plain reveals; second-floor sill band. Floor bands; cornices to
each floor, that at second floor prominent. Top blocking course. LISTED GRADE 2