STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
This attractive chapel in snecked stonework is part of the suite of buildings at Gateshead East Cemetery, although it was built slightly later. Based on the design of the original non-conformist chapel (apparently designed by John Dobson), it features the same steeply pitched slated roof with fishscale banding, which elevates the design above the norm. Dressings are in ashlar, including water tabling (with rolled tops), kneelers and quoins, but unfortunately the small turret to the west end has been lost. A solid porch to the front boasts a deeply moulded pointed archway and timber doors on decorative iron hinges. The lancets are slender and trefoil headed, although the windows have unfortunately been reinstated as poor imitations in its recent conversion to residential accommodation. The dramatic light in the gable is deeply inset, with simple pointed lancets and carved roundel details under a hood moulding with small voussoirs to the pointed arch. This is mirrored in the smaller, 2 light version to the gabled section to the north. Rooflights have also been inserted which are not as sensitive as they might have been – however, the condition of the building has been improved since the conversion to residential use.
MATERIALS Sandstone, slate, timber
ARCHITECT Based on John Dobson design (?)
BUILDER Harrison & Lowe
DATES 1868/9 Opened for use 17th March 1869
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
This chapel was built later because originally the Cemetery Board had an agreement with the Churchwardens at St Edmund’s Chapel to use that building for Church of England services. However, with a staff changeover, there was a great deal of tension between the 2 parties and the agreement fell through.
The research assistance of Caroline Harrop is gratefully acknowledged.

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
This attractive and substantial 2 storey lodge building, constructed in snecked stonework as the Superintendent’s House with offices, is part of the suite of buildings at Gateshead East Cemetery. It is positioned right at the entrance of the cemetery, making it very prominent, and was clearly designed to make an impression as people entered the cemetery, not least through the large pointed arched gateway marking the pedestrian entrance. The principal façade, to the north, exhibits several gables, with a large one fronting a wing, perpendicular to the main range, with 2 smaller gables surmounting first floor windows. The pattern is repeated, though with less depth, to the opposite elevation. On the western gable, fronting the main entrance, there is an elaborate and well-carved datestone, featuring the Gateshead crest and a goat figure (sadly rather disfigured now) within a roundel, and a broad arched window below. Solid ashlar chimneys grace the slate roof (with triangulate detail at the base to the west), and the water tabling has a rolled apex detail common with the other cemetery buildings. The mainly square-headed windows (plus a pointed arched lancet) have unfortunately been replaced with plastic casements, but the moulded solid lintels and cills remain, with chamfered edges also included to the stones forming the jambs. Overall, it a large and good quality example of a cemetery lodge building that truly enhances its setting. MATERIALS Sandstone, slate, timber
ARCHITECT John Dobson (?)
BUILDER John Harrison
DATES 1862
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
The house was part of the package of benefits of the job, along with coals, gas and water and an annual salary of £79.
It is not absolutely certain that John Dobson designed the building, however, there is a reference in the committee minutes of 25th February 1861 to Dobson demanding payment for plans, surveys and preliminary arrangements for laying out the ground he had prepared. As there is no reference to anyone else preparing plans, apart from Mr Lamb for the ‘porch’ to be built onto St Edmund’s Chapel as a coffin receptacle, it would make sense that the all the original buildings, as well as the layout, were designed by Dobson. Unfortunately no plans survive.
The contract for the building of the superintendent’s house and gardener’s house was let to Mr John Harrison for £100, and the work was reported complete on 6th March 1862.
The research assistance of Caroline Harrop is gratefully acknowledged. FUTURE RECOMMENDATIONS
It would be positive if the plastic windows could be replaced with more appropriate timber sliding sash windows.

DESCRIPTION
Late 40s/early 50s. Brick with stone dressings and felt roof. New windows.
DATES 1940s/early 50s.
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Good example of period. Nice features including hoppers. Built with a building licence using rationed materials.
Demolished c. 2018 (Google Earth aerial imagery).

Named as "Union Court" on Ordnance Survey first edition map {1}.
DESCRIPTION
Late 18th century altered. Random stone, large quoins and quoined windows. Welsh slate roofs. Two storeys; two, two and one bays. Openings modern.

DESCRIPTION
Substantial three storey stone terrace in commanding position.
ARCHITECT M/W? Reed Jnr. (for Septimus Oswald)
DATES Built 1872-5, No.3 1874.
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE No. 3 owned by William Swinburne (Town Clerk) from 1893. No 10 (?) was used as the rectory for St Helen’s Church for a number of years.

DESCRIPTION / STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
This exuberant Arts and Crafts style pub was created by refronting a Victorian end-terrace in 1907. It now stands alone, but retains all the character of the period in its faience facing and cheerfully painted timber casement windows. Detail abounds, in the form of a heavy dentilled cornice to the pedimented front gable, idiosyncratic wheat-coloured lettering and both engraved and etched glass. The building sports the same corner doorway as the overwhelming majority of the pubs in the area, supported by a wheat coloured column on a high green base, with mosaic to the floor below. A dual-aspect window at 1st floor level gives a nod to the more elaborate oriels and turrets elsewhere, whilst retaining the modest proportions of the building. To the rear even the coal hole and yard doors remain. It bears similarities to Crane House at New Quay, North Shields which was built 3 years earlier. This is a truly special period piece, and the survival of all this detail is all the more remarkable given the loss of most of the buildings around.
MATERIALS Red brick, glazed faience, timber, slate
ARCHITECT J Oswald & Son?
DATES 1907 (re-fronted)
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION The original Wheatsheaf was owned by John Barrass & Co. In 1914 the building was worth £2000. The pub name probably comes from the fact that the Wheatsheaf was the symbol of the Company of Brewers.

DESCRIPTION / STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
This building is of character and interest, having a certain presence set back from the road on a key east-west route, with a curiously asymmetrical façade and traditional materials. It was rebuilt at the turn of the 20th century for R Newton. Constructed in the by then prolific red brick, it still incorporates detailing in the local sandstone in the form of lintel and cill string courses and substantial mullions between window pairs to the first floor. A curved façade was incorporated into the design when the pub was rebuilt, in a similar manner to the Highlander at Swalwell. However this was later removed as the building was remodelled, but what appears to be the original, attractively detailed stained glass has been reinstated, although perhaps set in different frames. The original 6-over-1 sashes still grace the 1st floor, with the shallow-pitched Welsh slate roof and cast iron rainwater goods completing the picture of the end of the era of Victorian charm. The soaring, deeply corniced chimneys are of particular interest as they add a light, cheerful note, and create balance with the horizontal emphasis of the lengthy frontage, as do the unusual slim 6-panel doors.
MATERIALS Red brick, sandstone, timber, stained glass
ARCHITECT A Gibson Kyle
DATES Rebuilt 1901
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION The original Black Bull was a very humble, single-storey cottage style building, so it is understandable why rebuilding was desirable. Oldest surviving pub in Blaydon. In 1856 the landlady was Eleanor Birkett.

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
This now lonely hotel was once the end of Ann Street – one of a number of terraces running down the hill, the inhabitants of which it served. It is an attractive structure of red brick with stone surrounds to the openings, and a quirky, decoratively detailed turret presenting a cheerful face to the road at the south west corner. The chevrons and the arc above the date plaque animate the cornice, and the traditional shallow timber fascia is supported on stout dentils. The projecting sign is also in a traditional timber style, and the external illuminating lamps finish the reassuringly subtle and appropriate approach to signage. The windows, however, have all been replaced with rather nondescript timber casements and fixed lights. The deep grey slate of the steeply pitched roof contrasts strikingly with the warmth of the rich red brick, which (along with its stone dressings) is now subtly varied in shade as a result of weathering patterns. This is both visually pleasing and expressive of age, making it a prominent remnant of more bustling and prosperous times. It is a building of quality in the tradition of public houses in the eastern part of Gateshead – where the employment of an individualistic skyward architectural feature to crown the most prominent corner is a recurring thread.
MATERIALS Red Brick, sandstone, slate
DATES Rebuilt 1897 (plaque)

Built by the Birtley Iron Company for its officials. The cottages bear the initials and family crest of Augustus Henry Hunt. The name Talbot is from the Talbot dogs - hounds used for hunting - on the Hunt family crest {2}. STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
These cottages were built by Augustus Henry Hunt (1829 – 1877) for the higher-level workers at Birtley Iron Company – leaving both his initials and family crest on plaques on the buildings for posterity. He was of the gentry Hunt family who owned Birtley Hall, and later Birtley House, which was built by him in 1864. Their historical connection with this important family is therefore significant, particularly as little physical remains of their legacy in the village. Their quality is clear in both the materials and attention to detail, in contrast to the average humble house, and the composition is well-balanced and visually animated. This 2 storey row of cottages was built of squared sandstone rubble with solid lintels and sills with carved detail, and quoined jambs. The roofs are of heather-coloured Welsh slate with advanced gables to each end and a small gable to each side of the central name plaque with 2 gabled entrance porches between. There are black painted barge boards with decorative pinnacles to all gables, and 3 stocky pale brick chimneys along the ridge with inset courses, cornice and decorative angled course just below. The square section chimney pots have peaked tops. The window openings contain replacements (mostly plastic and are all single save the narrow double lights to porches. All doors are to the side. The low stone boundary wall with chamfered coping is punctuated by decoratively capped small gate piers, and encloses modest lawned gardens with hedging between.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Augustus Henry Hunt was partner in the iron works; he lived in Birtley House, The name ‘Talbot’ is from the Talbot dogs – hounds used for hunting and tracking – on the Hunt family crest. – Their motto was ‘From Truth Unswerving’. In 1878 Edward Trench inhabited ‘Talbot Villas’. [information from Heather Marshall]
MATERIALS Sandstone, slate, beige brick, timber
DATES 1873 (on plaque)

Church school, now dance studio. Circa 1841 for the Scotch Church. Sandstone ashlar. Twentieth century pebble-dash rendered ground and first floors. Welsh slate roof. Two storeys. Inserted twentieth century doors. Sash windows. Tall corniced ashlar chimney. Included for group value with former Scotch Church, although ground floor has been altered {1}. There is an entire elevation of polished black granite, which is a high quality and rare Art Deco inspired re-fronting {2}.