1, 3, 5 and 7, Gideon Walk

Nos 1, 3, 5 and 7 Gideon Walk are cottage homes for children built in 1903 by Leeson for the Newcastle Board of Guardians. They later served as Police Headquarters and a college. The buildings feature cavity walls made of stretcher bond brick, with some areas pebbledashed and painted, and they have Welsh slate roofs. Designed in the Domestic Revival style, the structure consists of two pairs of semi-detached houses.

The former Block 1-2 has a consciously asymmetrical facade, with one gable on the left and two on the right. It is two storeys high and has six bays. There are half-glazed doors located in the second and fifth bays. The outer bays contain Ipswich windows, while the first-floor windows are set in half-dormers with semicircular pediments. The gables are half-timbered and feature bargeboards, and the roof is hipped with three boarded ridge stacks.

The former Block 3-4 also has an asymmetric six-bay facade with similar doors. This block is two storeys high and includes a five-sided bay window under a pedimented gable in the fourth bay. It has a hipped roof with half-hipped transverse roofs over the outer bays and three corniced stacks.

These buildings are a notable example of the progressive approach to child care in the early 20th century.