Parish church. 1859-61 by A.B. Higham. Squared sandstone with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roofs. SW tower; aisled nave, with first north bay containing canted porch; chancel with north vestry and south chapel. Decorated style. Shallow west porch has 3 gables over tall 2-centred-arched door and flanking triple niches. Similar double door in NW porch has crocketed gables and single niches; head-stopped drip moulds above moulded arches on shafts with flower capitals. 5-light west window. Projecting tower has 3 and 2-light windows and large belfry openings. Angle buttresses with gargoyles crocketed gables. Stone broach spire. 2-light aisle windows have head-stopped drip moulds; 4-light east window. Cross finials to 3 steeply-pitched roofs. Interior: painted plaster and painted ashlar; arch-braced roof with high collar and queen posts. Quatrefoil piers with crocket capitals to moulded 2-centred
arches of nave and 2-bay chancel arcades; flower or head-stopped drip moulds. Tall chamfered tower arch contains door and boarded screen. 3 steps to chancel, one to sanctuary and one to altar; medieval-style floor tiles. Gothic-panelled wood reredos. Late C19 brass plaque on north chancel wall to William Boyd, banker. Re-constructed medieval octagonal font. Hall breaks forward on ritual south, completing
stepped frontage to green: one storey, porch and 3-sided end to street. Moulded surround to 2-centred-arched door set back at left; 3 windows of 2 pairs of Gothic lights under continuous drip mould; hipped roof. Curious papier-mache figure of Christ the King suspended over the chancel, early C20.

A small United Methodist Church (comprising the Wesleyan Association and Methodist Reformers) was built in Nesham Place in 1837. The land had been purchased for £120. In 1867 a new larger chapel was built fronting onto Nesham Place at a cost of £200 and the old chapel to the rear became school rooms. Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition of 1890 as chapel/The Tabernacles (Reform Methodists). In 1932 the Methodist Union joined together the Wesleyan, Primitive and United Methodists. In 1958 the Nesham Place Methodist Chapel celebrated its 121st anniversary. On 21st September 1980 Nesham Place Chapel closed. A house was built on the site in 2002. Seated 140.

Houses, how public house and offices. Circa 1836, probably by John Wardle, for Richard Grainger. Sandstone ashlar; c. 1900 ground floor of white faience; Welsh slate roof. 4 storeys, with fifth added; 6 bays. Ground floor has entrances in side bays to public house; office in left bay has renewed door. Sash winnows on second and third floors have glazing bars in plain reveals; first fluor renewed windows. Sill band to second floor; second-floor
entablature. Third-floor lintel band. Fourth floor has raised surrounds and cornices to windows. Included for group value {1}. The Adelphi was originally called the Ducrow Inn after a famous nineteenth century strongman Andrew Ducrow. Michael and Theresa Blakey ran the Ducrow Inn and Brewery for over 30 years. John Emmerson worked the small brewhouse behind the Ducrow Inn from 1868. Brewing ended in 1875. When Andrew Ducrow's fame faded in 1896, the inn was renamed the Adephi. The pub was 'improved and finished in an exquisite style' with the 'interior luxuriously arranged'. There was a bar, buffet, smoke room and sitting room on the ground floor and a refreshment room, dining room and billiard rooms above. At that stage the Adelphi was owned by a Mr Constantine. He sold it a few years later to concentrate on the Crown in Clayton Street West. W.B. Reid bought the inn in 1925 for £23,000. Today it is owned by Newcastle Breweries.

2 houses now as 1, in shop and office use. Circa 1836, probably by John Wardle,
for Richard Grainger. Sandstone ashlar; roof of Welsh slate. 4 storeys, 6 bays,
the central 4 recessed on upper floors. Flat Tuscan pilasters to ground floor
with plain windows. Door removed; blocked overlight. Sash windows with glazing
bars on upper floors; plain reveals to those in central bays and on top floor;
architraves to those in outer bays, with pediments on first floor and paired
sill brackets on second. Central 4 bays have Tuscan pilasters and entablature
to first floor, sill string to second. Top band and cornice; central and right
brick chimneys.

Houses, now shops and offices. Circa 1836, probably by John Wardle for Richard
Grainger. Sandstone ashlar; roof of Welsh slate. 4 storeys, 9 bays. Ground floor has
original 8-panelled door, and overlight with glazing bars to No. 10; late C19 shop
front to No. 8,with round-headed lights, slender pilasters and carved spandrels,
flanked by Tuscan pilasters. Nos. 2 and 4 have renewed ground floor. Ground floor
fascia and cornice. Upper floors have sash windows with glazing bars in plain
reveals. Second-floor level string and still string. Prominent cornice to second-
floor entablature. Top eaves band and cornice. Some brick, some ashlar chimneys.

Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition of 1890. Records for the pub go back to 1851 when John Ray was landlord. Painted white, slate roof. Said to be the most haunted building in Houghton-le-Spring! Four ghosts have apparently been seen - an old woman wearing black, a man, a young fair-haired child wearing Victorian clothing and the ghost of Thomas Caldwell, who was allegedly killed in the cellar of the pub in 1876.

Cemetery walls, piers and gate piers. 1825-29 by John Green: Sandstone ashlar. 4 tall
gate piers, the central pair higher, forming carriage and pedestrian entrances. Each
has plinth, banded cornice and top pedestal. Similar piers at intervals along wall
with chamfered coping.

(formerly listed as the Stoll Picture Theatre) I
Theatre and opera house, later cinema; now theatre. 1867 by W.B. Parnell for Cowan. Bought by Oswald Stoll and opened as cinema in 1919. Italianate front of three storeys, five bays (the outer bays narrower) in pale brick with stone dressings. Stone cornice with long brackets, tall parapet and pediment over; small semi-circular pediments, flanked by urns, at sides. Arcaded second floor. Ground floor modernised, Lozenge or pointed first floor window. Painted advertisement on left return gable: THE/STOLL/TYNESIDE'S/TALKIE/THEATRE.
Interior Horse-shoe shaped auditorium with three tiers of balconies on cast iron columns with floral capitals and long cantilever brackets. Balconies S-curved with thick applied baroque decoration. One set of boxes at either side framed in Orders below and by two large female terms at top stage. Shell-shaped ceiling and very high proscenium arch.
An exceptionally complete surviving example of early stage machinery. Deep stage with five sets of tabs, machinery and control panel. Complete switchboard for earliest electric lighting. Very deep and high back stage, dressing and ancillary rooms with many period features. Cinema closed in 1970s and reopened in 1977 as New Tyne Theatre.
Source: Mackintosh and Sell eds. Curtains!!! 1982. Italianate pale brick front. Fire damaged in 1985. The stage machinery restored.

One house. Now shops and offices. Circa 1750. Sandstone ashlar; slate roof,
graduated over 4 left bays. Ashlar and brick chimneys. 3 storeys and attics; 2:3:2
bays. Central door in Jacobean style doorcase with keyed arch under segmental
pediment. Rusticated pilasters to 3 ground-floor bays at left; alterations at right.
Inserted shops. Giant pilasters above define groups. Architraves and aprons to sashes
with glazing bars; floor bands between pilasters. Pilaster capitals at window head
level; top entablature with coved frieze. Roof has 2 small segmental-headed dormers,
with sashes at centre and left; renewed dormer with barge-boarded gable at right.
Interior shows rococo plaster to front ground-floor room, now shop at No. 57, with
phoenix motif on wall. Staircase with strap-work and plain panels, and portrait
profiles in oval medallions. Venetian window on half-landing with Doric entablature.
Putti and garlands above. Italian signature and date scratched on 1 pane,preserved
under glass, 1796. Shallow, panelled dome above. Eagle in medallion under balcony,
garlands over doors. 3 connecting rooms, 2-, 5-and 2-bay on 1st floor. All with
plaster panels and decorative cornices. Centre room elaborate ceiling with centre-
piece of putti with cornucopia on clouds and portrait medallions around. Corner
fireplace with decorative panel above. Alcove with bucranium motif and garlands.
Doorway with flat pediment and carved, pulvinated frieze. 1 side room has flower
and leaf pattern on ceiling. Wrought iron staircase and balcony railings probably
contemporary with plaster work {1}. This fine grade 2* listed late seventeenth century brick town house, built on the site of medieval properties, was the home of Sir William Creagh, Catholic and Jacobite Irishman and Mayor and Freeman of Newcastle in the 1680s. Corbridge’s map of 1723 shows a building with a grand doorway, a western carriage entrance, a balcony under a triangular pediment, an arched moulding above the second floor window and six Dutch gables with circular windows and a central triangular gable at roof level. In the 1720s the building was an Assembly House or events office. In 1724 it was used by a Mrs Fawcit as a school for young ladies. Around 1750 the house was re-faced in stone ashlar in a classical style and underwent significant internal alterations. A suite of prestigious rooms were created with beautiful decorative plasterwork, which may have been the work of the Swiss/Italian stuccatori the Francini, whose work can be seen at Wallington Hall. Between 1767 and 1795 it was home to Christopher Fawcett, Recorder of Newcastle. In 1803 the house was sold to Joseph Foster and some repair and remodelling was carried out. There is a dated signature of William Laidler, glazier, 1815 on a pane in the Venetian window. Other notable residents were William Peters, lawyer, ‘the last man but one in Newcastle who wore a pigtail’ from 1822, and from 1851 the relatives of John Clayton and George Crawshay, of Gateshead Iron Works. Number 55 was leased to the firm of Henry Walker & Sons in 1885 and converted to workshops, warehouse and a showroom. Subsequently both tenacies have been commercial lettings. The building is owned by Newcastle Arts Centre Trust Ltd. The ground and first floor are being converted into a coffee house and retail space. Northern Counties Archaeological Services have been recording and researching the history of this fascinating dwelling. Has fine stucco decoration.A watching brief during the restoration works revealed the remains of a stone-lintelled fireplace of probable late 17th century date. This property and Alderman Fenwick's house are the best surviving houses of the late C17 and C18 in Newcastle. The grey-green slate roof tiles are from Borrowdale in Cumbria. Now part of Newcastle Arts Centre.

Neville Hall was listed Grade II* in 1965 and amended in 2003 with the following description:
'Offices, library and lecture theatre. 1869-72 by Archibald M. Dunn for the Coal Owners' Association on behalf of the North of England Institute of Mining Engineers; lecture theatre interior 1902 by Cackett and Burns Dick. Polychrome sandstone with Shap granite columns at entrance; slate roof. Gothic style. 3 storeys, 5 bays to Westgate Road and 3 windows in right corner bay; right return to Orchard Street has 4 bays and a fifth wide gable. Corner steps to panelled door with side and overlights, in projecting canted ground-floor section; corbelled-out oriel above has lancet windows and female figure. Ground floor has shouldered mullioned-and-transomed windows and panels above with carved colts of arms; cusped 2-centred arches over similar first floor windows, except those in second and third bays which are square-headed and have stone balcony. Buttresses define bays and support shafts to Lombard frieze above first floor. Third-floor windows project into half-dormers with cusped heads under gables flanked by plinth blocks which originally held griffins, now removed. Octagonal corner turret; steeply-pitched roof with truncated chimneys; Neville symbol finial to turret. A decorated sill band on the Orchard Street elevation commemorates the ' North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, erected AD 1870.'
Interior shows much high-quality work. Entrance leads to broad staircase hall with closed-string open-well stair having heavy turned baluster balustrade and massive newels, and original doors, those to ground-floor lecture theatre, double, half-panelled under segmental heads installed 1902 along with the lecture theatre. Lecture theatre has a near-semicircle of bench seating; dado panelling and rear dado screen. Past presidents are commemorated in the panelling to the side walls. Egg and dart moulding to cornice, and mouldings continue into arched entrance, terminating in Ionic capitals with lions; compartmented ceiling. To side jack-arched fireproof bookstore with built-in glazed cabinets and shelving; book-store to rear is a later structure with iron galleries.
The upper floors above the lecture theatre and book store are occupied by the Wood Memorial Hall, the Institute's library. Double-height with gallery on two sides; five bays and with stained glass windows at each end commemorating Nicholas Wood of Hetton, first President of the Institute, who died 19 December 1865. His statue - in stone canopied surround - dominates the library, which is entered from the centre of the opposite side, flanked by stone fireplaces. Barrell-vaulted roof with skylight supported on short, paired stone columns with capitals, heavy modillion cornice with stencilled frieze above. Round-arched arcades between intended for busts, though only John Buddle and Thomas Emerson Forster are so far so commemorated. Below, the walls are panelled, and embellished with the names of past presidents. Cast-iron balconies with spiral stairs at each end.
Chamfered coping to dwarf walls in front supporting cast-iron area railings.
The building commemorates Newcastle's former pre-eminence in coal mining and the coal trade. It houses the world's most significant mining library and related primary material.'
Sources:
Newcastle Daily Chronicle, 30 May, 1870.
'Renaissance', The Mining Institute, 2002 Polychromatic Ruskinian Gothic fashion.