Terrace of houses. Mid C19. English garden wall bond brick with painted ashlar plinth and dressings; sandstone rubble rear and returns. Welsh slate roofs (except for No.22 which is felt-covered and nos. 8 and 24 which have concrete tiles; 2 storeys, 3 bays each. Doors and overlights in architraves at right of each house; wedge stone lintels to windows, some sashes, with ground floor projecting stone sills and first floor sill band. Eaves band and gutter cornices. End brick chimneys; inserted dormers to Nos. lO (slate-hung) and 12 (pedimented).
Included for group value with Church of St. Matthew and as example of early working-class housing.

This structure was listed Grade II in 1987 with the following description:
'Gateway, part of Art Department. 1911 by W. H. Knowles for Armstrong College. Dark red Flemish bond brick with ashlar dressings; roof of plain tiles. Tudor style. Gabled front of 3 storeys, one bay. Paired moulded arches with blind tracery above containing statue of Edward VII in central niche. Gothic-lettered Latin legend in frieze below pierced parapet. Upper floors, recessed between wide full-height buttresses, contain 2-storey canted bay with large royal arms in panel between floors. Stone mullioned and transomed windows. Top battlemented parapet with corner pinnacles.'

Offices, now restaurant. Circa 1890. Sandstone ashlar; Welsh slate roof.4 storeys and attic, 8 bays; Jacobethan style. Leaded casements in stone mullioned-and-transomed cross windows. Paired pilasters flanking 2 bays at each end, those on ground floor Tuscan order with paterae; Ionic Order above; Corinthian on third floor, all with full-width entablatures with pulvinated friezes; egg-and-dart-moulding to ground-floor cornice, dentils to first and modillions to second. 2 dormers have similar windows in keyed arched recesses flanked by consoles and under segmental pediments. Parapet with pilasters; 2 segmetal-headed dormers. One-bay right return to Quayside has similar dormer with consoles giving shaped gable effect.

Headstone. Circa 1906, to members of the Harrison family. Granite and bronze. Art Nouveau style. Tall square column on plinth. Tree-like corner shafts spread into swelling foliage brackets supporting cornice.

Headstone, enclosing rail, and cross laid flat. Circa 1905 headstone and rail; c.1865 cross. Marble, sandstone ashlar and wrought iron railings. Marble head- stone inscribed to commemorate John Dobson died 8th January 1865, and other
members of his family to his daughter Margaret, died 1905: scroll with carved lilies. Chamfered sandstone curb with twisted iron posts and diagonally-set square rails encloses graves; plain sandstone cross inscribed J D lies flat in centre. Listed for historical interest.

Early C17 or earlier coaching inn with considerable alterations in C18 and early C19.
Brick, mainly rendered, part painted, rubble stone to rear and under arch; Welsh
slate roofs. Three-part facade: at west of three storeys, two windows; in centre
two storeys, three windows, both sections stuccoed. To south-east over a
carriage arch an irregular two-storey part of painted brick. Two six-panel doors
in pedimented doorcases. Sash windows with glazing bars, four of them tripartite.
Arch supported on stout beams. Rubble walls beneath with two segment-headed door-
ways. High-pitched roofs except in third part. Long, irregular rear elevation of
large rubble stonework, patched in places. One original window surround remains
and a large chimney breast, inside which is a wide fireplace with shallow segmental
chamfered stone arch with rounded corners and slightly vermiculate voussoirs.
Main rooms on both floors have stout, fairly close-set joists, possibly of early
C18. Bar at east end has stout, shallow joists, probably original. Roofs
renewed in C18 {1}. Joseph Stappard occupied brewing premises attached to the Old George from 1870 to 1877. He died in 1883 but his trustees did not sell the inn until 1905. George Hogg & Co. bought it in 1949. In 1961 Hammond's United Breweries bought it. The pub eventually came into the hands of Bass, who renovated it in 1985, extending it into High Bridge. Charles I reportedly was allowed to drink in this pub in 1646 whilst he was being held captive by the Scots. The chair which he sat in is in the Charles I Room. Many visitors have claimed to see a ghostly figure sitting in the chair. Footsteps have been heard in the bar when it is closed. A man with a dog has been seen standing at the bar. In the main function room staff have reported feeling nauseous {Kirkup 2009}. McCombie - former coaching inn, partly 17th century or earlier, 18th and 19th century changes. The main block is stuccoed. Inside there is a wide segmental fire-arch and 18th century joinery. Later stables, stores and (probably) brewhouse, brick with some late 18th century sashes. Pearson - alterations by Lawson of Simpson, Lawson and Rayne in 1928 when the pub was owned by George Hogg & Co, wine and spirit merchants.

Shop, formerly Messrs. Boots. 1912 by Boots' architect MV Trevelyan. 3 storeys, 3 bays. Renewed ground floor shop front; rusticated pilasters to each floor. First floor has tripartite sash, with central pediment, flanked by niches; 3 sashes above have keyed architraves and intermediate niches. Cornice to first floor breaks forward over pilasters and over brackets to second floor niches. Broken segmental dentilled
pediment breaking forward over the latter niches contains swags, bracket and raised panel. Top blocking course. Life-size figures in shell-canopied niches of famous Newcastle men - Sir John Marley, Roger Thornton, Thomas Bewick and Harry Hotspur (actually from Alnwick not Newcastle) . Nos. 43-45 are now the Carphone Warehouse.

Gate piers and wall. 1849, for the Northumberland Yeomanry. Sandstone ashlar and brick. 2 gate piers, that at left square and that at right narrower and set against wail of Riding School, have plinths and console-topped inner pilasters.
Brick wall about 3 metres long adjoining left pier has chamfered stone coping.

This house was listed Grade II in 1987 with the following description:
'House, Mid C18, raised by one storey in mid C19. English garden wall bond brick with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof. 3 storeys, 5 bays. Steps up to 6- panelled door and overlight in central raised stone surround; pediment removed. Wedge stone lintels and projecting stone sills to sashes with glazing bars; floor strings. Cornice below 2nd floor windows, and interrupted band above cornice. End brick chimneys, truncated at right, to roof hipped at right.'
Former brewery house (Newcastle University Works Department)

Shops and houses, now shops. Circa 1837 probably by John Wardle for Richard
Grainger. Sandstone ashlar; roof not visible. 4 storeys, 17 bays. Ground floor
altered. Sash windows, some with glazing bars, in plain reveals; bracketed sills
to second floor. 15 bays between projecting end bays have first floor band.
Second-floor entablature with prominent cornice. Eaves band and top cornice. In 2013 No. 4 is Berketex Bride and Nos. 16-20 is Babylon's 90s Bar.