Shops and houses, now offices. Circa 1837 by John Wardle, for Richard Grainger.
Circa 1900 shop renewed at right; at left (in style of 1900) renewed c.1982.
Sandstone ashlar; Welsh slate roof with brick chimneys. 4 storeys, 3 bays. Ground
floor Tuscan Order; giant Ionic above. Shops have curved glass to recessed
entrances and slender pilasters to lights with curved top corners. 8-panelled
house door and overlight in deep reveal at right. Sash windows with glazing bars
on all floors ; pilasters above prominent second-floor cornice. Top cornice and
blocking course. Ridge chimneys. McCombie - Nos. 55-59 is a Ionic pavilion with pilasters. Now [2013] Whitewall Galleries.

Shops and houses, now shops and offices. Circa 1837; probably by John Wardle,
for Richard Grainger. Sandstone ashlar; roof not visible. 4 storeys, 6 bays.
Circa 1900 office in left 3 bays has 3-panelled doors, under overlights with
glazing bars, flanking elliptical-headed wide window with carved spandrels.
Entablature has pulvinated frieze with cartouches supporting cornice. Shop in
right 3 bays has renewed central door under altered entablature. Windows on
upper floors, sashes with some glazing bars, in architraves, those on second
floor with bracketed sills. Second-floor entablature with prominent cornice.
Top sashes in plain reveals under cornice and blocking course. Graded for
importance in fine street group. Prior to the construction of Grey Street in the 1830s, the area of 41-51 was occupied by the Butcher Market on its east side and the rear of long burgage plots stretching back from the Bigg Market to the west. The land was part of a large estate which had originally belonged to the Franciscan Friary and St. Bartholomew's nunnery. The earliest known use of the premises is Greenock Worsted Mill Yarn Stores at 49 Grey Street in c.1860. By 1874 the occupiers of 47-49 was George Foreman, mourning warehouse (undertaker) and 51 by S. H. Farrer, a cloth merchant. In 1886 Foreman (47/49) had expanded into being quarry owners and were trading under the name Robert Patterson and son from no.49. No. 51 was occupied by Carrick's Cumberland Dairy at this time. By the late 19th century no. 49 was altered to a bank. In 1933 no 49 were offices for T Brown Ltd. and A&R Appleton (millers). The arched window (part of the 1891 alterations) of no.49 was changed to a doorway in 1988. Alterations to 51 include the creation of a flue and chimney for a basement boiler in 1906. Carricks were still in the building in 1968.

Bank of England and Northern District Joint Stock Bank, now offices. Circa 1835,
probably by John Wardle, for Richard Grainger. Sandstone ashlar with plinth;
Welsh slate roof. Classical style.4 storeys, 10 bays. 6-panelled double doors
and overlights with glazing bars in bays one and 3; similar door with altered
overlight in bay lO. Channelled rustication to ground floor with lintel string
to ground-floor sashes, those in bays 6 to 9 with aprons; fascia and band Giant
Corinthian Order above contains sash windows in architraves, pedimented on first
floor and with bracketed sills on second floor which has high modillioned
entablature. Third floor balcony has fat turned balusters; sashes in plain
reveals between pilasters under top cornice and blocking course. Glazing bars
to windows; shutters and original stucco decoration to some rooms. McCombie - a palazzo built for the Bank of England, who moved to Pilgrim Street in 1968, and the Northumberland and District Banking Company. Giant Corinthian order in antis. The wall behind is more heavily emphasised than Dobson's building opposite, with pedimented first-floor windows and attic behind the balustrade. Did Cockerell, the bank's architect, contribute? Now a restaurant, windows lowered on the left.

Shops and houses, now offices. Circa 1835, probably by John Wardle, for Richard Grainger. Classical style. Sandstone ashlar with plinth; Welsh slate roof. Ground floor altered; giant Corinthian Order above contains sash windows with glazing bars in architraves; plain entablature with prominent cornice. Third-floor windows have plain reveals; pilasters to top entablature and blocking course. McCombie - a pavilion, originally a hotel, with keyed elliptical arch, left, to a lane and stabling behind; originally a route via White Hart Yard to Cloth Market. Part of a 44 bay composition up to High Bridge, with pavilions and a boldly modelled ten-bay centrepiece.

Christie's Directory of 1874-5 lists five businesses in No. 15: T Lupton, jeweller; Reid & Hall, corn merchants; Blagdon Chemical Co; R.S. Proctor, coal merchant and British Guardian Life Assurance. At No. 17 were Prichard & Spicer, tailors.

In 1911 the census lists John Malcom, shipwright, and his wife Mary at No. 15 and George Henry Hogg, engineer/labourer, his wife Margaret and daughter Georgina living at No. 17.

The building was converted into licenced premises in 1979. In 1986 it became a restaurant. It is presently (2018) Tandoori Nights.

Has an interesting cellar where the Georgian stonework continues to the cellar floor.

Shops and houses, now restaurant and shops. Circa 1835, probably by John Wardle, for Richard Grainger. Sandstone ashlar with plinth; Welsh slate roof. Classical style. 4 storeys, 3 bays and curved left corner bay to Mosley Street. Circa 1890, mayve 1895-6, the corner entrance was added in Baroque style; flat Tuscan pilasters frame shops with slender late C19 pilasters; fascia and band. Giant Corinthian Order above contains sash windows in architraves, with pediments on first floor and bracketed sills above; entablature with modillioned cornice. Third-floor windows in plain reveals between pilasters top band. All windows sashes with glazing bars; those in corner are curved.

No. 1 is now the Vineyard. No. 3 is Shakespeares.

The 1851- 1881 censuses shows that No. 1 was the hosier and glover's shop of Robert Robson. He lived in No. 3 with his wife Elizabeth, 4 children, 2 servants and a hosiers assistant.

In 1916 Ward's Directory lists the Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Co. here. Cuthbert Horsley was the manager.

The second floor of No. 3 had all partitions removed in 2013 to create an open-plan dance studio.

Terrace of houses. Circa 1823. English garden wall bond brick with ashlar
dressings and basement; Welsh slate roof with flat stone gable copings. Basement,
3 storeys and attics; 2 bays each house except No. 3 which has third window over
central elliptical stone carriage arch to Westgate Road. Steps up to 6-panelled
doors, some with beaded lower panels, and patterned fanlights in doorcases of
panelled pilasters and open pediments. Wedge stone lintels to windows, French
type opening on to individual balconies on first floor, sashes elsewhere with
projecting stone sills and glazing bars. Nos. 2 and 6 have ground-floor oriels;
No.1 has no basement but has ground-floor square projecting bay with stone mullions. Attic dormers segmental-headed except for No. 2 at right which is square-headed; no dormer to No. 1. Ridge chimneys. Robert Stephenson lived at No. 5 1829-1834.

Shops and houses, now shops and restaurant. Circa 1836, probably by John Wardle, for Richard Grainger. Painted sandstone ashlar; Welsh slate roof. Curved
corner to Market Street. 4 storeys, 5 bays. Ground floor altered. Giant fluted
Ionic attached columns to upper floors. Sashes in plain reveals, most with glazing
bars; some inserted ventilators, Second floor entablature and prominent cornice.
Top floor Windows flanked by panelled pilasters; top cornice and blocking course
with blocks above pilasters. OS second edition names this as the Grainger Hotel Public House.

Shops and houses, now shops. Circa 1836, probably by John Wardle, for Richard
Grainger. Sandstone ashlar; roof not visible at left and Welsh slate at right.
4 storeys, with attics except to left 3 bays; 15 bays. Ground floor altered.
Upper floors have sashes in plain reveals, some with glazing bars. Second-floor
sill band. Second-floor entablature with prominent cornice; top cornice and
blocking course. Inserted mansard roof to 5 left bays with 5 large attic windows. In 2013 No. 76 is Supercuts, No. 78 is Gamestation, No. 80 is One Stop News and No. 82 is The Mushroom.

Shops and offices. Dated 1874; by Matthew Thompson for Sir Walter Scott. Some
ground floor alterations c.1980. Sandstone ashlar; dark slate roof. Italianate
style. 3 storeys and attics; 9 bays. Rusticated piers to ground floor, that at
centre right altered; central renewed office door; bracketed cornice. Pilasters
to upper floors, fluted in end bays, are Tuscan Order on first floor, framing
arched windows with shell-carved tympana; similar carving to paired central second
floor windows under round arch with lozenge ornament in tympanum ; plainer windows
in other bays, between wide pilasters with brackets to top cornice. End and
central attics of one and 3 lights have garland-ornamented pilasters under open
pediments; linking balustrades with urn finials. In 2013 Nos. 42-44 is Pronuptia Bridal and Menswear. No. 48 is Scope Charity Shop. No. 50 is the Arthritis Research Campaign.

Covered market. 1835 by John Dobson for Richard Grainger. Painted plaster with cast iron grilles; cast iron girder roof to west range, plaster to other ranges. Rear range a large rectangle, with bowed lattice girder roof and glazed roof-lights; other ranges a grid with open shops, many with iron grilles over, with pilasters defining bays, and with large shop numbers on fascia. Flat roofs with plastered cross beams; cross passages running from Granger Street have round-arched ceilings. Much original work visible, probably more remains behind boarded fascias. Walls above shops contain sashes with vertical glazing bars. An early covered market, built to replace the 1808 'Butcher Market' which Grainger had to demolish before Grey Street could be laid out. Source: Wilkes and Dodds Tyneside Classical 1964.
Grainger bought the site of Anderson Place in 1831 and started building his market there in 1834. Newcastle Corporation bought the 'New Market' from Grainger. Marks and Spencer opened their Penny Bazaar in the market in 1896. The long fascia has bold lettering and big lamps. "Street after street of butchers' shops in which are displayed hecatombs of fresh killed meat. Rosy faced butchers surround us on all sides until we reach the regions where eggs, bacon and other provisions are displayed….. In the centre a large stone basin with a fountain (nicknamed the Butcher's Spittoon), which on market days played and had a very pretty effect when the ducks brought for sale were allowed to swim in the water" {Charleton, 1888}. McCombie - the commercial hub of Grainger's scheme. Bounded by Grainger Street, Clayton Street, Nelson and Nun Streets. Plain external walls - 46 bays on the long sides, 34 on the short sides, articulated by pavilions. At the ends on Grainger Street these have giant simplified Corinthian pilasters, on Nelson and Nun Streets they have tripartite windows. The ground floor has plain pilasters to the shops, the fronts all altered. Most run through to the interior of the market. Most sashes are small paned - 15 panes on the first floor, 9 on the second floor, 6 on the top storey. Many restorations, some inaccurate. The interior has four arched east-west passages crossing four clerestory-lit alleys, originally for butchers' stalls. Original detail includes big numbers on fascias and shopfronts with iron ventilation grilles above, some restored. The third alley from the east (north end) has the Marks & Spencer Penny Bazaar - a delightful survivor, opened 1896, extended 1906, with painted glass fascias. A wider top-lit west alley runs north-south. This was the Vegetable Market. It originally had John Dobson's impressive timber-and-glass aisled roof with queenpost trusses, pendants, curved braces on tall slender iron columns - perhaps the first such market-hall roof. Dobson and Carmichael's watercolour shows the space without columns as proposed. By 1898 the roof was defective and needed repaired. It was replaced in 1901 with a glass-covered elliptical span 17m wide.