Table tomb. Late C18. Commemorates members of the Gunn and Raisbeck families
from 1779 to 1846. Sandstone ashlar. Gothic style. Moulded-edged slab on solid
serpentine ends; central recessed supporting slab. End panels have Gothic shafts
and blind tracery.

House, now part of club (The Oxford, Tiffany's, later Ikon, now Liquid and Envy). Circa 1825 by John Dobson for himself. Incised stucco; roof not visible. 3 storeys and basement, 3 bays. First 2 storeys framed by end pilasters, honeysuckle frieze and cornice; all windows on these floors sashes in architraves; with bracketed cornices on ground floor; second floor has sashes in plain reveals. All windows have glazing bars; ground and second floor sill bands. Architrave and bracketed cornice to 4-panelled double door in second bay of left
return. Interior shows high-quality stucco work to stair soffit and ceiling and to
ground floor front and first floor rear rooms. Wide wreathed handrail on hardboard-
covered balustrade. Graded for historical interest. John Dobson advertised building plots for sale at the Pandon Dene on many occasions between 1813 and 1833. These new developable plots were created when John Stokoe built the New Bridge in 1812. Dobson built Picton Place (see HER 1875) on the west side of the Dene and villas, semi detached houses and terraces (such as Ridley Villas 1823) were built on either side of New Bridge Street, some to Dobson's designs. Dobson built his own house in the newly fashionable New Bridge Street in Greek Revival style. It is the sole survivor of this development. The plain ashlar has been painted but you can still see the crisp simplicity of the design. The façade is uncomplicated by placing the entrance to the west. The long garden (now in-filled by a warehouse) once contained Dobson's architectural fragment collection. McCombie - restrained house (altered), 1823, painted stone, with a honeysuckle frieze and bracketed window cornices on the main floor. Some internal stucco decoration by Ralph Dodds. After his retirement, following a stroke in 1862, John Dobson moved briefly to Ryton, but he returned to New Bridge Street shortly before his death. John Dobson died on 8 January 1865 aged 74. He left £16,000, his household furniture, stores, plate, linen and pictures to his daughter Margaret. Margaret died in 1905 and bequeathed some items to the Laing Art Gallery. In May 1911 the house up for sale and may have been for sale for a prolonged period. 'FOR SALE. THIS VALUABLE FREEHOLD SITE CONTAINING ABOUT 2500 SQUARE YARDS WITH DWELLING HOUSE, WORKSHOPS, STABLES AND YARD BEHIND AND TWO ENTRANCES FROM OXFORD STREET'. There was a walled garden to the rear in which Dobson displayed his collection of architectural fragments. It had a formal oval shaped walkway around trees or shrubs (Oliver's map of 1844). The stables and workshops were first recorded on a map in 1851 as a single structure along the northernmost part of the site boundary. By 1861 other structures were added. The remaining Dobson family moved to the Isle of Wight in 1919. In 1921 planning approval was granted for the demolition of John Dobson's House and for a proposed £250,000 development of a theatre, dancehall and restaurants. The scheme thankfully never happened due to lack of finance. In 1924 the same developer, City Amusements, was granted permission for a revised scheme for a dance hall and restaurant which incorporated John Dobson's House. This scheme went ahead (see HER 15563 Oxford Galleries). The list description refers to high-quality stucco work which extends throughout the building. However, a building recording undertaken in 2015, states that the second floor was added in the mid 1920s meaning any decoration on this floor is not original despite the stucco being of typical Dobson design. The stucco in the list description probably dates from the 1920s refit of the building.

Goods station offices, now various offices. Circa 1870 for North Eastern Railway.
Sandstone ashlar; Welsh slate roof. One high storey, 5 bays. French Renaissance style with pilasters defining bays. Central double door with blocked overlight in surround under pediment; wide round-headed windows in other bays. Dentilled cornice
and high parapet with pilasters and cornice; hipped roof, raised over central bay.

End bays are returns of Nos. 95-137 Grainger Street (q.v.) and Nos. 11-43 Clayton Street (q.v.) and are described here since they complete the composition. Shops and public house, forming north elevation of covered market. 1835 by John Dobson for Richard Grainger. Sandstone ashlar; roof not visible. Classical style.
3 storeys, 34 bays in all. Giant Corinthian pilasters to end pavilions.5 market
entrances, the first, fourth and fifth with flanking wide Tuscan pilasters and
entablature, the latter 2 containing segmental arches painted over. Upper floors
have sashes in plain reveals, some with glazing bars; third bay from left and
fourth from right are blind; second floor has aprons and slightly-projecting
sills. Tripartite windows with architraves on first floor of end bays. Second
floor has floor band and prominent dentilled cornice. 8-bay intermediate projecting
sections have top parapet with pilasters; blocking course to other parts. Lord Stowell Public House at east end (bought by James Deuchar in 1921, closed in 1969 under Newcastle Breweries) and Blackett Arms Public House (still open) towards west end on OS second edition. There is a stone plaque on the front of the shop on the corner of Nelson and Grainger Street. It dates to at least 1914. Although hard to decipher it reads as follows: TO COMMEMORATE VISITS TO THIS CITY AND TO A BOOK SHOP IN THIS HOUSE BY GUISEPPE GARIBALDI IN 1854, LOUIS KOSSUTH IN 1856 AND W. LLOYD GARRISON IN 1876. Garibaldi was an Italian hero and one of the architects of the unification of Italy; Kossuth a Hungarian revolutionary and Garrison an American reformer and pioneer anti-slavery campaigner. The book shop was run by Joseph Barlow a Unitarian and supporter of reform.

Warehouse, now facade of Eldon Centre shopping precinct. Circa 1899 by Marshall
and Tweedy. Sandstone ashlar. Roof not visible. Free Baroque style. 4 storeys
and attics; 5 bays. Ground floor has Ionic pilasters flanking renewed windows
and recessed entrances, under bracketed fascia. Brackets support slender pilasters
extending 2 ½ storeys defining bays and having cartouche finials. 2-storey
bracketed oriels in outer bays; and all other windows have slender wood mullions
and transoms; top windows have 2-storey keyed architraves to inner bays, outer
segmental-headed architraves. Modillioned eaves cornice; parapet with 3 segmental-
headed attics windows. Included for group value.
This building has been redeveloped behind the facade so that only the facade
is of interest.

House and shop, now shop. Circa 1836, probably by John Wardle, for Richard
Grainger. Sandstone ashlar with later pink granite and terra-cotta columns to shop;
roof not visible. 3 storeys, 5 bays. Central renewed double door under swan-neck
pediment, with keyed roundel and garlands, recessed between tall shop windows with
slender glazing bars; Jacobean-style columns flank door. Rusticated pilasters
define end bays containing 6-panelled double doors and high overlights with
patterned glazing bars. Ground floor fascia and cornice. First floor sill
string to sashes in architraves, the central with blind balustrade and bracketed
pediment, the outer bays with cornices. Second-floor architraves have bracketed
sills. All windows have glazing bars. Bracketed top cornice and balustrade.
This building has been redeveloped behind the facade, so only the facade is of
interest. Former New Market Hotel. Renamed Wallace's Hotel by Fitzgerald's who paid £1850 for it at auction. Then renamed Café Royal (as shown on OS second edition). McCombie - Nos. 8 and 14 are matching pavilions, less severe than most of Grainger's work, with ornamented window surrounds and a balustraded parapet. No. 8 has a good shopfront with pink granite columns, c.1890.

Shops and houses, now shops. Circa 1836, probably by John Wardle, for Richard
Grainger. Sandstone ashlar; Welsh slate roof. 3 storeys, with 4 at right; 8
bays. Ground floor altered. 2 right bays of 4 storeys have architraves to
windows on tipper floors, with frieze and cornice above first-floor windows and
bracketed sills to second floor, under entablature with prominent bracketed
cornice. Top floor has sashes in plain reveals under cornice and blocking
course. 6 recessed bays at left have first-floor aproned sills, second-floor
sill string all sashes in plain reveals, some with glazing bars. First floor
band to these bays; top cornice and blocking course. Later wrought iron gate
in first bay.

Piers and gates. Vehicle and pedestrian entrances. Concrete with metal bands; wrought iron gates. 8 round piers with low rounded coping and bands form central vehicle entrance; flanking pedestrian entrances and vehicle entrances breaking forward at either side. Geometric-patterned gates and railings. Round piers show exposed aggregate and have one metal band near base and 2 near top.

Schools. Now Community Centre. 1936-8; F. W. Harvey, Building Surveyor to City of Newcastle Education Committee. Mostly Flemish garden wall bond brick with concrete dressings; metal windows; felt-covered tower roof. X-plan. Art Deco style. Central octagonal tower, supported on concrete piers with inlaid granite bands, over vehicle and flanking pedestrian archways with triple soldier-course lintels. Curved balcony to tall window with stepped head. Ornamental glazing bars to and to lantern windows above; banded lower section to low, hipped roof. 2 stepped outer bays each side contain tall stair window and higher round stair window at end. Classroom wings of one storey, 12 windows break forward; diagonal cloakrooms at front link to gymnasium blocks set back. Swimming-pool wing further forward at right. Most doors original with geometric glazing bars to overlights. Windows all original. Flat roofs. Interior shows mostly original glazing to doors; horizontal oak panelling in entrance halls; twin concrete spiral stairs to tower with compass panel on ceiling.

Offices and shops. 1894 by Armstrong and Knowles for Alderman Stout. Left shop
1902 by Watson and Curry. Sandstone ashlar; roof not visible. 4 storeys, 3 bays.
Rusticated pilasters flank central office door; similar pilasters flank wide arch
in left bay, with many keys, over window with moulded sill; right bay altered.
Ground floor entablature. Giant Ionic Order above defines shallow canted bays,
and narrower central recessed bay containing single window on each floor, all
sashes with upper glazing bars whose keyed central cornices rise into main
entablature on second floor. Top floor has mannered, squat Ionic Order with block
rustication to paired columns flanking mullioned-and-transomed keyed elliptical-
headed windows. Top entablature has pulvinated frieze with brackets above each
window and pair of columns. Tall corniced end chimneys. Second edition OS names this as the Half Moon Inn. In 2013 No. 28 is John & Surtees Hair Base and No. 30 is Supersnack with offices above.