35, Oldgate

No. 35 Oldgate is a shop and house built in 1889 by Boolds and Hardy of Morpeth for Mr. Matteson. The building is constructed from rock-faced stone and features a Welsh slate roof, designed in the Art and Craft Tudor style. It has an L-plan layout, with the shop front facing Oldgate and a large house at the rear.

The shop spans two storeys plus attics. The ground floor retains its original shop front, which includes a half-glazed door on the left and a large 4-light mullioned shop window on the right. Above the shop, there is a sign with stone relief lettering and a stone cornice, supported by dated stone brackets featuring small grotesque figures. On the first floor, there are two 3-light mullioned windows set in chamfered surrounds. The roof is steeply pitched with flat coping and tall corniced end stacks on the rear pitch, along with a 4-light raking dormer. The right return of the shop has small, deliberately irregular windows.

The house is also two storeys and has three bays, with a slightly projecting cross-gabled centre bay. To the right, there is a half-glazed door, accompanied by a long, low 4-light mullioned window. Directly below the eaves, there is a low 12-light window with wood baluster mullions that continues around the corner and along the right return. Other ground-floor windows are 3-light mullioned-and-transomed. The first floor features 2- and 3-light mullioned windows. The roof is gabled, with tall corniced end and lateral stacks.