The John George Joicey Museum

The John George Joicey Museum is an important building located on City Road in Newcastle upon Tyne. Originally constructed in 1681 for the Corporation of Newcastle upon Tyne, it served as almshouses for a master and 39 poor freemen or their widows. The building has been heightened over the years and features English garden wall bond brick with a renewed pantiled roof. It stands three storeys tall and has 15 windows, with a rear wing added in 1886.

The ground floor is arcaded and showcases 30 rubbed and moulded brick arches. On the first floor, there are alternate flat and segmental brick arches above 3-light casements with brick aprons. A central feature includes a keyed semicircular pediment that breaks the second-floor string, resting on a mask bracket and adorned with cartouches in the tympanum and below. The string course breaks forward over flanking pilasters that are topped with consoles. The second-floor casements are plain, and the building has moulded floor strings and a dog-tooth cornice. The roof features shaped gable ends and corniced brick chimney stacks. The 1886 rear wing, built in a similar style, was originally used as a soup kitchen.

Inside, the museum has a central staircase with turned balusters and a high grip handrail topped with a lion finial. The historical context of the building is noted in H. Bourne's "History of Newcastle upon Tyne," published in 1736.