Teacher training college; 1907 as school by Leonard Stokes for Sacred Heart
Society. Flemish bond brick with ashlar dressings; plinth and rusticated quoins;
graduated Lakeland slate roof. U-shaped range around courtyard. 2 storeys and
attics. 3 wide bays on each front plus wide angle pavilions with large round
bows facing; taller, flanking towers. Main south front: sashes with glazing bars
in groups of 3 and 5. Deep cornice and parapet before mansard with dormers.
3 tall front; chimneys. 3-storey pavilions have rusticated quoins to second floor
level; modillioned eaves cornices. Cornices at same level to flanking towers and
parapets of full storey height above. Full-height buttresses on tower returns.
Return elevations of similar style. LISTED GRADE 2*

This building was listed Grade II in 1954 with the following description:
'Parish church. 1927-31 by E.E. Lofting; paid for by Sir James Knott in memory of his sons James and Basil, killed in First World War. Snecked tooled sandstone with ashlar dressings, moulded plinth and large quoins; graduated Lakeland slate roof with roll-moulded gable copings. Nave and south aisle; south-east tower; tall north vestry. Free Gothic style. Double doors, boarded and studded, in 2-centred arches, that at west moulded and shafted, that at south under corbelled shallow gable. Tall traceried windows of 2 lights to twin-gabled west front and to nave and aisle; smaller similar windows to tower south front; and 3-light windows on east of tower and in chancel, this last very tall. Aisle and nave have corbel table. Tower has 2 small windows above drip mould of east window; Lombard frieze above these; and paired belfry openings with pierced shuttering under battlements. Buttressed stair turret at south west has octagonal top with stone spirelet. Interior: plaster with ashlar dressings; king-post roof; ribbed vault to tower memorial chapel. 4-bay arcade of chamfered arches on tall octagonal columns; similar archesto chapel. Arches with Moorish wood screens on north to organ chamber; one similar arch and oriel screen, above tower chapel, for organ pipes. Corbelled arcaded stone frieze below sills. Marble-flagged chancel floor. Inlaid wood altar and retable; elaborately-carved reredos. High quality glass. Historical, note: said to be built with stone from Dobson's 1830 Newcastle prison, in Carliol Square, demolished at that time.' {1}.
There are two of everything in this church to remember Knott's two sons {www.newmp.org.uk}. Saint Basil was one of the Cappadocian Fathers {wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_of_Caesarea}.

These gate piers were listed Grade II in 1976 with the following description:
'2 piers. Late C18 for Fenham Hall. Sandstone ashlar. Tall, square piers, with flat copings and ball finials, have indented corners and tapered half-columns on inner faces. O.S. mark on the southern pier.'

2 piers, originally from Virgin Mary Hospital in Westgate Road and resited behind
gate piers at school entrance. C13. Sandstone. Octagonal piers, each on square
plinth and moulded base; nail-head band on moulded capitals; each has 2 courses of
springing of chamfered arches and side arches. In the eighteenth century the
Grammar School occupied the buildings of the former hospital; they were demolished
when Neville Street was laid out c.1844. LISTED GRADE 2

Houghton-le-Spring Cemetery opened on 1 March 1892 on Durham Road. The cemetery, lodge and railings cost £4000. The parish church's detached burial ground (HER 6052) was by then very full. Houghton Cemetery was consecrated in 1907. In the 1930s the cemetery was extended to the east to Hetton Road. Toilets were built in the centre of the cemetery. There are 38 war casualties buried in the cemetery, commemorated with 27 CWGC headstones. Around 1939 August William Cooper was the cemetery superintendent and he lived in the lodge on Durham Road with his family.

Cemetery gateway, piers, walls and railings. Circa 1856 by Johnstone and Knowles.
Sandstone ashlar and cast iron. Tudor arch, under string and gabled, crocketed
parapet, flanked by tall octagonal piers with gabled coping and high octagonal
gabled pinnacles; flanking piers to pedestrian gates have gabled coping. Vehicle
and pedestrian gates are gothic-traceried and have spearhead standards and dog bars.
Rounded coping to quadrant walls with spear-headed railings and low, spiked dog
bars. Scroll above entrance inscribed ST. JOHN'S/CEMETERY/ELSWICK. LISTED GRADE 2

Ashfield Parents Centre and Ashfield Nursery, School and walls, gate piers and gate attached.
Ashfield House; c.1830 for Richardson, tanner; now in educational use. Sandstone
ashlar; dark slate roofs, graduated over main block. U-plan with wings running
forward to enclose garden. 2 storeys; main block 3 bays; central projecting
enclosed Tuscan porch with 4 pilasters has 6-panelled door with overlight and
narrow side lights; cornice and blocking course. Renewed glazing to tripartite
window above in plain reveal with projecting stone sill; similar single windows in
side bays. Eaves band, gutter cornice. Low-pitched hipped roof with no chimneys
visible. Slightly lower wings have 3 similar windows on inner returns, some blind;
end walls, to street have 4-panelled doors, that to No. 101 at right renewed, and
one window each floor. Quadrant walls enclosing garden have ramped flat coping;
2 tall square gate piers, Gothic-panelled, have overlapping pyramidal coping.
Wrought iron gate with dog bars. LISTED GRADE 2

Drinking fountain. Dated 1859 and inscribed PRESENTED BY DUNN AND CO. Pink
granite. Plain back plate with inscribed pediment; semicircular basin. LISTED GRADE 2

2 houses, now University Offices. Circa 1828. English bond brick with painted
ashlar dressings; felt-covered roof. 3 storeys and attics; 2 bays each house.
Doors in outer bays, 8-panelled at left to No. 12 and 6-panelled at right to
No. 10, with overlights and cornices; panelled surround to left door. Wedge stone
lintels and projecting stone sills to windows with renewed glazing. Hipped roof has
small segmental-headed dormers with sashes with glazing bars; central chimney.
An early semi-detached pair. LISTED GRADE 2

Shop and house. Circa 1784; remodelled 1902 by Benjamin Simpson. Sandstone
ashlar ground floor; painted brick above with painted ashlar dressings and quoins;
Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. Art Nouveau shop. 3 storeys and
attic, 2 bays. Door at left and wide window at right in 3 fat Ionic half-columns
with exaggerated entasis; wood mullions and transoms to segmental-headed window.
Plain sashes above in architraves, bracketed on second floor. Eaves band and
gutter cornice. Mansard roof has wide pedimented dormer and ashlar-corniced brick
chimneys. LISTED GRADE 2