Cathedral Buildings

Cathedral Buildings is a Grade II listed building located on Dean Street in Newcastle upon Tyne. It was designed by Oliver, Leeson and Wood and features a dated cartouche from 1901. The structure includes shops and offices, now incorporating a restaurant. The ground floor is supported by cast iron columns, while the upper three floors are constructed of brick with ashlar ornamentation. There is a rendered attic storey and additional attics, topped with a Welsh slate roof and stone gable copings.

The building is designed in a free Jacobean style and consists of five storeys, including a mezzanine in the three left bays, which provides additional height due to the steep slope of the site. The façade has seven bays, with a slightly projecting central bay that features a double door set within a tetrastyle porch, supported by heavy corbels beneath a five-storey shallow canted oriel window with sash windows in architraves.

Elaborate Ionic columns separate the shops, and the plain Ionic mezzanine is situated under three similar bays with pilasters. Decorative cartouches are placed between the floors. The attic storey includes a balcony supported by large brackets, triple sash windows, and a central round-headed window beneath a drip cornice, with paired sashes in the seven gables above. The roofs are steeply pitched. At the rear, there is a free Baroque doorcase topped with a large oculus, and a drip moulding above features a large sculptured hare finial. The building is included for its group value with the Cathedral.