Master Mariners' Homes

Master Mariners' Homes are a pair of almshouses, now serving as 18 old people's homes, built in 1837 by J. and B. Green for the Tyne Mariners' Benevolent Institution, with land donated by the Duke of Northumberland. The building was restored in 1973. It is constructed of coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings and a plinth, topped with a Welsh slate roof and a lead tower roof.

Designed in a Jacobean style, the structure has an E-plan with a central tower and is symmetrical. It stands two storeys high, featuring two groups of three bays, with the outer groups breaking forward under paired gables. The open-arched ground floor is located in the central projecting bay, which includes a three-storey tower. Above the first floor, there is a niche containing a commemorative inscription and the arms of Trinity House, Newcastle upon Tyne, set beneath an elaborate dripmould. The clock stage above features a corbel table and cornice, topped with an ogee-hipped roof that has a square bellcote and vane.

The central bays of the wings have inserted 20th-century doors, while the centres of the groups flanking the tower contain inserted casements in blocked doorways. Each central bay slightly projects under a shaped gable and is flanked by first-floor corbelled oriels beneath smaller shaped gables. The windows are casements, with three lights on the ground floor and two lights above. The high-sloped gable copings are adorned with spear finials and moulded kneelers on the principal gables. Conjoined octagonal chimneys are positioned at the apex of the gables facing the street, with ridge chimneys on the double-span roof.