Grainger Market

Grainger Market is a Grade I listed covered market located on Grainger Street in Newcastle upon Tyne. It was designed by John Dobson and built in 1835 for Richard Grainger. The market features painted plaster with cast iron grilles, and the west range has a cast iron girder roof while the other ranges are plastered. The rear range is a large rectangle with a bowed lattice girder roof and glazed roof-lights. The other ranges form a grid with open shops, many of which have iron grilles, pilasters defining the bays, and large shop numbers on the fascia. The flat roofs have plastered cross beams, and the cross passages leading from Grainger Street have round-arched ceilings. Much of the original work is still visible, and there is likely more behind the boarded fascias. The walls above the shops contain sashes with vertical glazing bars. This market was an early covered market built to replace the 1808 'Butcher Market,' which Grainger had to demolish to allow for the layout of Grey Street.