The City Hall and Baths (HER 6248) were built in 1928 by C. Nicholas and J.E. Dixon Spain. Neo-Georgian design with a colonnaded entrance. They were listed Grade II in 1992 with the following description:
'City Hall and Public baths. 1928. Designed by Nicholas and Dixon-Spain.Steel framed, brown brick with ashlar and red brick dressings, and slate hipped roofs. Ashlar plinth. Northumberland Road, front two storeys and 25 windows. Central entrance block, 7 windows with slightly projecting 3 window centre topped by a large pediment with circular window. 3 round headed arches with panel pilasters, rusticated ashlar and above a deeply moulded band. Above 3 glazing bar sashes the central one with a moulded ashlar surround and brackets supporting a flat hood. Set-back on eitherside, a rusticated ashlar and above a deeply moulded band. Above 3 glazing bar sashes the central one with a moulded ashlar surround and brackets supporting a flat hood. Set-back eitherside, a rusticated ground floor with small barred basement windows and above single glazing bar sashes. Upper floor has single glazing bar sashes. Outer bays, set back again, also have glazing bar to each floor. 9 window side wings are similar, each has tall ashlar Doric portico with central columns between flanking antae, which project slightly in front of further antae topped by a heavy entablature and parapet. Set back on eitherside are blank walls, with further blank walls beyond. Above 5 square windows with moulded surrounds, set back on eitherside are single small square windows, and further single windows beyond all topped by a coped parapet. College Street front, 2 storey, 11 window front. Central, slightly projecting, 9 windows articulated with giant Doric pilasters, with ashlar bases and red brick dressings. Bays 4 and 6 have doorways with double panel doors and bolection mould surrounds, the remaining ground floor openings are square with plain stone surrounds. Above the doorways are tall panels with red brick surrounds. Above a thick ashlar band and 9 windows with moulded ashlar surrounds and bracketed cills, the central 7 openings have glazing bar cross casements and the outer ones are blind. Above a dentilated entablature with brick frieze and panel parapet above. Set back at eitherside a single bay, with double panel doors and bolection mould surrounds, above a single glazing bar sash to each floor with red brick surrounds and above a plain entablature. John Dobson Street front is similar with giant Doric pilasters supporting an entablature and panel parapet, with 3 large round headed doorways with moulded ashlar surrounds and large keystones, at the centre and over bays. Between 3 square windows on eitherside with plain ashlar surrounds, and above 9 square windows with moulded ashlar surrounds. At rear a tall tapering octagonal brick chimney stack with ashlar moulded cap. INTERIORS. City Hall has marble lined foyer with 3 round arches at either end, with mahogany and gilt fans, and between 2 urn shaped lamps. The north wall has 3 similar arches with double panel doors, and the south wall has 3 similar arches with double panel doors, and the south wall has 5 similar entrance arches with double glazed doors and fanlights. Deeply coffered plaster ceiling: Eitherside are staircases with metal balustrades with wave mould decoration. Hall is rectangular with narrower raised stage to north, and a large gallery with extended curved sides to the south. Gallery front decorated with rosettes, panels and wave moulds. Deeply coved ceiling above dentilated cornice, with elaborate coffered centre. Behind the stage a later organ in an eighteenth century style case. Public Baths have rectangular foyer with round headed plaster openings and deeply moulded coving, and groin vaulted corridors. Mens bath has large rectangular tiled pool, and cantilevered viewing gallery around 3 slides with curved metal railings with Greek-key pattern, stepped wooden decking and wooden rails. Coffered plaster ceiling with central segmentally curved central section with sunken overlights. Womens bath similar, though smaller, without the gallery, and with a simpler ceiling with curved centre and overlights. Turkish bath has ashlar Doric pilasters and dado, mahogany panelled changing rooms and doors, circular glazed dome and coffered ceiling plus inlaid floor. Steam room has groin vaulted ceiling with 3 circular domes, and marble slabs.' LISTED GRADE 2

This building was listed Grade II in 1987 with the following description:
'Non-conformist church with house and school. In use as a Polytechnic building at the time of listing. Foundation stone dated May 1895; by Marshall and Dick. Snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings; graduated Lakeland slate roof with red ridge tiles and finials. Aligned north-south. Ritual north-west tower and low south-west tower flank west porch; aisled 4-bay nave; high transepts; chancel. Perpendicular style. Open-arched porch has 4 small chamfered windows under drip string; shaped parapet above; deep splay to arch and to 4-centred-arched door in 3-stage tower. Tower has small high slits, paired segmental-headed belfry opening, shaped battlements with corner pinnacles and shallow set-back buttresses. South-west tower has paired square-headed windows with tracery, high parapet, and pyramidal roof with finial. Set-back west gable has buttressed central projection with 6-light window. Paired windows in 2-storey aisles. 3-light clerestory and 4-light transept windows. Interior painted plaster with hammer-beam roof, Cantilevered gallery on 3 sides; corridors in aisles; high sanctuary arch. High-quality glass in west window by Atkinson Bros. of Newcastle; other good pictorial glass in north aisle and north transept. Former house and school to rear: 2-storey, 2-bay house has half-timbered upper floor; 2-storey, 10-bay school has wood-mullioned-and-transomed windows, 3 in gabled half-dormers.' LISTED GRADE 2

Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition map.

Shown on Ordnance Survey third edition map.

This building was listed Grade II in 2000 with the following description:
'Former Assembly Rooms, now fitness centre. 1889 to the designs of Lamb and Armstrong of Newcastle. Stone front range, brick to main block, slate roof with tall stone stacks. Rectangular plan, on two main storeys, each with main corridor, principal room to one side and smaller rooms (many now changing rooms). Attics over.
Main facade of two storeys with attic dormers is almost symmetrical, with oriels projecting under shaped gables with finials. Balustraded parapet to the section between the two oriels, with dormer set behind. Bolection moulded cornice, and engaged columns to first-floor centrepiece with lozenge moulded bases; fluted Ionic pilasters below on ground floor. Between them is a central round headed window, with round windows on either side, and doors under large fanlights beyond them. Keystones to the round-arched openings. Elaborate decoration in all the spandrels. In the frieze between the two orders, carving denotes `AD: THE GRAND ASSEMBLY ROOMS: 1889' in cartouches. Double panelled entrance doors. Windows are a mixture of sashes and bottom-hung casements; on the simpler side elevations some ground-floor windows are filled with coloured glass. Mullion and transom window to former Committee Room. The north elevation is the more regular, with seven bays of windows with margin lights to main upper hall, and four larger to that below. All have round-headed upper lights in rectangular frames.
Some vigorous decoration survives internally. Entrance with roundels to either side, and further plaster cartouches in high entrance hall. Columns with arcading between, and further decoration in spandrels. Broad open-well staircase with timber balustrade leads to upper landing treated as a round-arched screen with Jacobean style columns. The lower hall was not accessible at time of inspection, but retains original doors into corridor and end fitness room. The upper floor is more elaborate. Lecture hall over entrance, perhaps originally a tearoom with fireplace and staircase down from entrance. Committee room with moulded plaster panels, frieze and fireplace with overmantel. The large hall has original doors with strapwork mouldings. Doors in the corridor retain coloured glass lights. Many balustraded staircases, that at rear leading to attic with open truss roof.
Included as a good surviving Victorian public building, with particularly fine if eroded stone decoration on its principal facade, and an excellent range of internal fixtures. It forms a group with the Students' Union alongside.'

College of Science built for the University of Durham. The first part, which faces onto the Quadrangle was designed by Robert J. Johnson 1887-8. In 1892 Johnson's south-east and south-west wings which face onto Students Union and Bedson Buildings were opened. Johnson died and so his design for the final wing (with tower facing onto Victoria Queen Road) was revised in 1904-5 by W H Knowles. [John Penn says the Jubilee Tower was in 1894 by FW Rich]. This final phase was opened on 11th July 1906 by King Edward VII.
The building was listed Grade II in 2000 with the following description:
'College of Science, built for the University of Durham. 1887-1906. Designed by Robert J Johnson, F W Rich and W H Knowles. Red brick with ashlar dressings and plain tile roofs. Tree storey plus attics. Main street front 15 windows arranged 2,5,1,5,2. The central bay occupied by tall seven storey square tower with octagonal corner turrets. Central round headed doorway in moulded ashlar surround with projecting Ionic portico and flanking narrow lights. Either side projecting square blocks with niches and Ionic pilasters. Above large Diocletian window crossed by pairs of Doric columns with bold corner buttresses topped by symbolic figures. Second floor has 3-light cross casement windows flanked by pairs of Ionic columns with narrow side lights beyond. Third floor has similar articulation though with Corinthian columns topped by an open segmental pediment bearing a coat-of-arms. Next stage largely blind. Bell stage above has three round headed openings to each face, the central one articulated with Ionic columns and segmental pediments, topped with ornate stone parapet and octagonal corner towers capped with small domes. Either side 3 storey recessed 5 window ranges have central windows flanked by canted bay windows and beyond single windows, all topped by parapets. Recessed attic storey above. Gabled end pavilions have triple ground floor windows in elaborate ashlar surrounds, above blank central arch flanked by single 3-light cross casements, upper floor has central recessed window with Ionic columns in antis flanked by cross casements. Balustrade above with tripartite window in columned surround in the gables. Coped gables have massive domed corner finials. Similar gabled wings to both returns. Main irregular quadrangle facade has central hall section with large two storey canted bay window to right, and 3 hall windows to left. Left range heavily buttressed with two window gable and beyond seven window range and then projecting end pavilion with gable. Right range has eight windows with alternate buttresses and eight gabled dormer windows. Octagonal turret beyond with glazed cupola capped with ogee leaded dome. South-east rear facade has Tudor style central gatehouse with four-centred stone archway, octagonal corner towers and four-storey canted oriel window. Top section has similar canted bay windows to sides and canted staircase projection to rear. Flanking facades have tall stepped buttresses with three-light windows to lower two floors between and gabled dormer window windows above. Right facade has large canted bay window rising through two floors. South-west front has simple plain many gabled facade hidden by two storey late twentieth century extension not of special interest. INTERIOR has important contemporary decoration in the main entrance hall, marble-lined corridor, main staircase, senate room and great hall. Great hall has wooden panelling, gallery and elaborate wooden roof with fine plaster panels. Foundation stone laid by Sir W G Armstrong 15 June 1887, opened by King Edward VII in 1906.'
There is a silver plaque on the wall inside the building which reads 'THE COLLEGE BUILDINGS WERE USED DURING THE PERIOD OF THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918 BY HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT AS THE FIRST NORTHERN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOR ENGLAND FOR THE EXCLUSIVE BENEFIT OF MEMBERS OF THE MILITARY AND NAVAL FORCES OF THE CROWN'. The hospital had capacity for 104 officers and 1420 other ranks.
History of Newcastle University - in 1871 the College of Physical Sciences was founded. In 1883 it became affiliated to the University of Durham and was renamed Durham College of Science at Newcastle upon Tyne. In 1904 it was renamed Armstrong College (University of Durham). In 1834 the Newcastle upon Tyne School of Medicine and Surgery was founded. In 1852 it became affiliated to the University of Durham was renamed Newcastle upon Tyne College of Medicine in connection with the University of Durham. In 1870 it was renamed University of Durham College of Medicine. In 1937 Armstrong College and the College of Medicine were amalgamated to form King's College (University of Durham). In 1963 King's College became the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition map.

Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition map.

Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition map.

Named as cabinet factory on 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map. This was the manufactory of T. J. Sopwith. The business commenced in 1769. The Laing Art Gallery holds a print of the works by John Storey, Junior of 1844.