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Broad Chare

Broad Chare is a historic street running off the Quayside at the junction near the Law Courts which houses the beautiful Trinity House Newcastle, The Live Theatre, pubs and amongst others a Tesco Express!

Numerous medieval jetties were an important feature of the Quayside in times past. At their base, the river between the wooden jetties was gradually filled in with rubble, beginning in medieval times. Houses were subsequently built on the land that was created. The old wooden jetties evolved into narrow riverside alleys called ‘chares’. Chare is an Anglo-Saxon word meaning, ‘a ninety degree turn’ or bend (like a chair) and such alleys often projected from neighbouring streets at this angle.

At one point, there were 20 chares in Newcastle. After the great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead in 1854, a number of the chares were permanently removed although many remain in existence today.

Description courtesy of Englands North East & Chares at Wikipedia.





29th September 2022



Broad Chare, No. 25 (Rear).

Warehouse. Late C18 or early C19. Local pinkish-red brick in English garden wall bond; Welsh slate roof. 3 storeys, 5 bays. Nearly symmetrical. Central wagon door below Dutch loading doors on upper floors, the top door narrower. Regular small windows in segmental arches. Similar arch to boarded door with barred overlight at right. Inserted wagon door at left. Segmental-arched cellar chute below ground-floor window.

Grade 2 Listed. Source: Sitelines.





14th December 2021



Broad Chare, 11-17, Head Of Steam.

Late C19 Public House formerly known as The Baltic Tavern.




Broad Chare, 21-23.




Broad Chare, 25.




Broad Chare, No. 25B.

Warehouse. Late C18 or early C19. Local pinkish-red brick in English garden wall bond; Welsh slate roof. 3 storeys, 5 bays. Nearly symmetrical. Central wagon door below Dutch loading doors on upper floors, the top door narrower. Regular small windows in segmental arches. Similar arch to boarded door with barred overlight at right. Inserted wagon door at left. Segmental-arched cellar chute below ground-floor window.

Grade 2 Listed. Source: Sitelines.




Broad Chare, 27.




Broad Chare, 27-29.




Broad Chare, No. 29.

2 Warehouses. Circa 1840 for Trinity House, Newcastle. 4 storeys, 7 bays. English garden wall bond brick; Welsh slate roof. Later C19 shop fronts inserted and vehicle entrance at left altered. Bricked-up loading bays on all floors in third and seventh bays. Segmental brick arches and projecting stone sills to barred 2-light windows. Part of the property of Trinity House.

Grade 2 Listed. Source: Sitelines.




Broad Chare, No. 31.

House, now offices. Circa 1760. English garden wall bond brick, of varying numbers of courses, with rendered plinth and ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof. 3 storeys, 2 bays. Steps to 4-panelled door with overlight, under wedge stone lintel, at left.

Sash windows with glazing bars, tripartite under stretcher course on ground and second floors. Stone floor and eaves bands; stone-coped parapet. Irregular hipped roof with brick chimney. Part of the property of Trinity House, Newcastle; the Secretary's room is incorporated in the rear of the house.

Grade 2 Listed. Source: Sitelines.




Broad Chare, No. 33.

House, now offices. Late C18/early C19. English garden wall bond brick, 3 and one, with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof with rendered chimney.

Painted stone architrave to central 9-panel door and overlight; wedge stone lintels and projecting stone sills to sashes with glazing bars; windows wider in first bay. Eaves band; cyma-moulded gutter cornice. Left end brick chimney, rendered chimney at right. Part of the property of Trinity House, Newcastle.

Grade 2 Listed. Source: Sitelines.




Dog Bank.

One of the minor medieval streets linking the three main routes through the town. Street around the south edge of All Saints churchyard. Bourne confuses the situation by also calling it Silver Street (the later name for All Saints Street).

Source: Sitelines.




Silver Street.



Live Garden, Broad Chare.




Broad Chare.

A view of the northern end of Broad Chare with Dog Bank off to the right. Taken from City Road.





4th October 2021



Broad Chare, 11-17, Head Of Steam.




Broad Chare, 25.








18th July 2018



Broad Chare, No. 33.




Broad Chare, No. 31.




Broad Chare, No. 29.




Law Courts.






Broad Chare, 11-17, Head Of Steam.









26th September 2017







April 2017



Quayside, Nos. 77 and 79, Baltic Chambers.

Offices. Early C20. Sandstone ashlar; roof not visible; ashlar-corniced grey brick chimney. Asymmetrical. Second-Empire classical style. 4 storeys, 2 bays, the right narrow with round-arched entrance holding internal flight of 4 steps to panelled double door.

Ground floor rusticated. Shop front at left with cellar shute below. Upper windows sashes, those on first and second floors paired in left bay, with chamfered reveals and moulded segmental heads. Bowed ornamental aprons between floors. Giant flat pilasters support quasi-entablature at third floor level, above which they are rusticated and bifurcated up to top entablature; third floor sashes in architraves, triple in left bay.

Grade 2 Listed. Source: Sitelines.





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