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Pilgrim Street, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE1 6SG

Aka St Andrew's House. A loftily grand sandstone front, probably late C19th, but neither statutorily nor locally listed. Now mostly flats, with a hairdressing salon at the ground floor (John Gerard).

This is on Pilgrim Street in Newcastle city centre. This house dates from the late C17, and so is a pretty rare survivor in Newcastle, much of the city centre being rebuilt in the C19. It has had many uses over the years, including as a coaching inn, and a lot of alteration, but was restored in the 1990's by the Tyne and Wear Building Preservation Trust. It is now used as offices, by the trust and others.

A C17 merchant's house, built around 1670, and one of the oldest preserved buildings in Newcastle. Alderman Fenwick was Mayor of Newcastle in 1720. It was later a coaching inn, The Queen's Head, and, more recently, the Liberal Club. The building was restored in 1997, and is now offices. You need to climb onto the wall of the Image on the opposite side of the street to get a good view of the restored cupola and wind vane on the roof Image Tyne and Wear HER (6972): Newcastle, Pilgrim Street, No. 98, Alderman Fenwick's House http://www.twsitelines.info

Late 17th C with 18th C alterations. A rare survival in Newcastle of a merchant's house. The Fenwick family played a prominent role in the commerce and government of the town - and the name continues: see Image (photographed by Andrew Curtis). From a house, the building became a coaching inn (the Queen's Head), then from 1884 it became Newcastle's Liberal Club. The property had been empty for over 25 years when in 1982 the Tyne and Wear Building Preservation Trust began restoration work with the aid of architects Simpson and Brown of Edinburgh. The building is Grade I listed http://list.historicengland.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1024793 . See also Image The Buildings of Grainger Town - No.27. See Image

You need to climb onto the wall of the Image on the opposite side of the street to get a view of the restored cupola and wind vane on the roof Image

Ordnance Survey cut mark benchmark described on the Bench Mark Database at http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm41966

This house at 98 Pilgrim Street is one of the most important mercantile town houses in any city in the North of England. With medieval origins, it occupies two burgage plots on the main route to the North and seems to have been substantially built in the mid-seventeenth century. The oak stair, rising into the lantern tower, and the ceiling of the Great Room are of this period. In Corbridge's 1723 map of Newcastle, the building is attributed to 'Alderman Fenwick'. Although not born out by research, the name has stuck. In the late eighteenth century it became the Queen's Head. From 1880 until 1962 it was the Newcastle Liberal Club, but by the late 1970s the building was derelict. Consent for demolition was applied for and refused. In 1980, the Tyne & Wear Building Preservation Trust appointed Simpson & Brown to carry out structural and internal repairs to the buildings for their use as offices. Following completion of the first phase in 1983, funding failed and the buildings stood empty for thirteen years. With new support from the Heritage Lottery Fund, the work was resumed and completed in 1997-8. The house remains in the ownership of the Trust, whose principal tenant is the Bank of England. There is an OS benchmark Image on the right hand side column of the lantern tower, left of the entrance.

This is the main route south from the city centre of Newcastle, leading onto the Tyne Bridge. The bridge's arch can be seen in the distance in the centre, and All Saints Church on the left. A mixture of C19 and older buildings are on the right.

Built 1967-1971 to house vaults for the Bank of England. Now looking for a new owner but the strange shape might not suit many users unless they have a lot of bullion to protect. Tyne and Wear HER (9788): Newcastle, Pilgrim Street, Bank of England http://www.twsitelines.info http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1482279 Swan House (55 Degrees North) can be seen to the right. There is a 'space invader' visible in this photo although you will have to search the high resolution image for it.

Disused buildings on Pilgrim Street.