Non-conformist church. 1853-8 by John Dobson for the Anti-Burgher Society, later Presbyterian. Sandstone ashlar central block, brick wings. Welsh slate roof. L-plan. Palladian style. Basement and two storeys. Central recessed double door under canopy. Half-glazed door and overlight in fifth bay. Sash windows. Banded brick chimneys {1}. An example of Dobson's use of "Renaissance classicism" or Italian style, in the last decade of his work. St. Columba's Presbyterian church was built 1856-7. It was integrated into Northumberland Square by its plainer wings of brick, but had a "particularly dignified" stone façade. Five bays with Tuscan half columns and at the angles pilasters supported an entablature below cornice and balustrade, standing on a rusticated base {2}. Pevsner - very much in the style of Sanmicheli (i.e. North Italian Cinquecento). Independent MP William Shaw Lindsay laid the foundation stone on 20 October 1856. Sunday School Hall added in 1870.

Eight houses, now offices. Before 1811. Sandstone ashlar. Nos. 13, 16 and 19 have roofs of graduated Lakeland slate, others in Welsh slate. Brick chimneys. Six-panelled doors with fanlights in classical doorcases. Sash windows. Pevsner - the focus of the nineteenth century developments in North Shields. A square almost too spacious for the two-storeyed houses on its three sides. The best side is the north, all of c.1810, in good ashlar with original Lakeland slate roofing on Nos. 13, 16 and 19. The central three bays and each end pair project slightly, the latter in bows. Each projection has quoins and a coped blocking course. Houses vary in size from three to five bays. The doorway to No. 17 encloses two doors. The doorcases are classical, with open pediments on columns. The west side of the square is Victorian, the east mostly simple early C19. The leitmotif is doorways with Tuscan pilasters and heavy straight entablature. This motif is seen in many streets in North Shields (e.g. Camden Street, Stephenson Street, Howard Street) {2}. Traditional door knobs, letter boxes and footscrapers survive at Nos. 19-20. No. 20 has particularly attractive with elegant double-height bow windows, which emphasise these end-of-terrace houses and are typical of the graceful late Georgian style. No. 18 has an elegant ground floor bow window at the rear, in stone, which would have originally faced onto the gardens to the north. No. 18 has large stairwell windows with intricate glazing bars {3}.

Five houses, now offices. Before 1811, with twentieth century alterations. Brick with ashlar dressings, rusticated quoins and rendered basements. No. 4 painted rough render. Welsh slate roof. Basement and two storeys. Doors with fanlights in Tuscan doorcase. No. 1 has an early twentieth century doorcase. No. 3 has a mid twentieth century inserted shop. Wedge stone lintels to windows, mostly sashes {1}. Pevsner - built in 1811 but altered in C20 in most insensitive manner {2}. All the houses are raised up on semi-basements and have a flight of stone steps to the front door. There is a former stable behind No. 5. Nos. 1 and 5 have elegant double-height bow windows {3}.

Hotel, now offices. Begun 1800. By D. Stephenson for Duke of Northumberland. Sandstone ashlar. Welsh slate roof. Italianate style. Three storeys and attic. Rusticated ground floor. Central renewed 5-panel door and overlight in deep porch with leafy capitals and dentil cornice. Sash windows. Giant Ionic columns on first floor. Ramped balustraded parapet. Duke of Northumberland's coat of arms removed from central panel. Part of a scheme for a complete layout of buildings around a new quay and market place, finished in 1817 {1}. An 1810 watercolour by John Dobson shows three ranges of buildings round a square open to the quay, but only the monumental terrace of which the hotel was the centre block was completed (in 1817). The foundation stone for the market place buildings was laid on 14 October 1806, accompanied by a nine gun salute. The hotel was traditionally called the "Jungle". Because of all the stuffed animal's heads and trophies on the walls. The building had been the town house of the Duke of Northumberland in 1806. In 1848 the Hotel was controlled by Bartleman and Crighton, the North Shields brewers. In 1897 it was taken over by R.W. Cummins. Within two years he had redecorated and refurnished the entire hotel using Newcastle architects Marshall and Dick to redesign the ground floor to include new service areas and bars. By 1899 Cummins was catering for the shipbuilding trade, with public luncheons and dinners, and functions related to steam ship trials. The ground floor of the hotel had three bars and a small dining room. On the upper floors were a coffee room, billiard room, smoke rooms and a large dining room for 100 guests. The buffet bar on the south front had a semi-circular counter, the north front bar, a curving counter. To the rear of the hotel were the service area and toilets. Cummins sold up within five years. By 1903 the Newcastle wine and spirit merchants A.H. Higginbottom & Co. were in control. In the mid 1920s Maclay & Co. Ltd., brewers from Alloa, bought it. After the war the hotel passed to Whitbreads {1}. Sympathetically extended to the west in the late 1980s/early 1990s to form Collingwood Mansions.

This war memorial was listed Grade II in 1986 with the following description:
'War memorial. 1922 for Smith's Dock Company Ltd. Sandstone steps and Portland stone cenotaph. Carved wreaths on tall, corniced, tapered cenotaph flanked by tall pilasters, the upper sections curved with reeded necking. Names of dead from the company in Great War carved on both sides of memorial. Date 1914-1918 inscribed in wreaths.' {1}
Unveiled 24th July 1922. 13 feet high. "TO THE/ GLORY OF GOD/ AND THE HONOUR OF/ THEIR COUNTRY/ IN MEMORIAM". On the rear: "ERECTED BY SMITH'S DOCK COMPANY LIMITED IN MEMORY OF THE EMPLOYEES FROM ALL DEPARTMENTS WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR". 141 names are listed. The sculptor was Stephen Easten of Newcastle and the designer was Unsworth and Triggs of London. The monument is identical to those erected in South Shields and Normanby. 1300 employees from Smith's went to fight. The monument was moved in 1994 to make way for housing, but put back close to its original position {www.newmp.org.uk}.

Grave slab and coffins. Medieval. Sandstone slab with matrices for one male, one female figures and at their feet for five smaller figures, the central one female. Two stone coffins to north and south. Modern iron railing around slab.

This structure was listed Grade II in 1986 with the following description:
'Lock walls and gates. 1882 for Tyne Improvement Commissioners by Ure and Messent. Walls sandstone ashlar; iron gates. 4 lock walls with curved nosing at entrance to dock; curved recesses for gate machinery. Western lock has 2 pairs of gates c.25 metres apart, the eastern lock 2 pairs c.4 metres apart. Historical note: the Coble Dene dock was renamed after its opening by Prince Albert-Edward. Source: R.W. Johnson, The Making of the Tyne, 1895 pp 108-12.'

This structure was listed Grade II* in 1986 with the following description:
'Hydraulic accumulator tower. 1882 for Tyne Improvement Commissioners. Engineers Ure and Messent. Rock-faced sandstone with quoins, ashlar plinth coping and dressings; Welsh slate roof. 2 high storeys, one bay. Partly-glazed door under rock-faced elliptical arch; similar arches and projecting stone sills to windows, that above door with vertical glazing bars. Windows on east face blocked up. Swept pyramidal roof with railed lookout on top and bargeboarded gable above star-patterned panels, said to have contained clock faces. Interior: high quality sandstone ashlar; iron stair to machinery; hydraulic machinery. Historical note: the only surviving example on the Tyne of hydraulic machinery, first developed at Newcastle by William Armstrong in the 1840s. Unused at time of survey.'
The tower used hydraulic power to open the lock gates.

House, now house and shop. Circa 1820 with circa 1890 shop. English bond brick with ashlar dressings; wood shop. Welsh slate roof with ashlar chimney. Three storeys. Overlight to hardboard-covered house door at right. Arcaded shop front with door at left beneath bracketed fascia. Late nineteenth century sashes. Roof has small skylight and chimney.

Bank, now shop. 1882 by F.R.N. Haswell for Hodgkin, Barnett, Pease, Spence and Co. Sandstone ashlar. Welsh slate roof. Italianate style. Three storeys. Late nineteenth century entrances in outer bays. At left a recessed panel contains a small window in broken segmental pediment. At right a moulded elliptical-headed surround with pedimented carved keystone. Three sash windows between. Giant Corinthian Order to upper floors. All windows in architraves. Sashes. Corniced ashlar chimneys.