Quayside, Cosyns House

No. 1 Quayside, a 5-storey x-bay timber-framed building at the west end of the Quayside, said to have been built by John Cosyns, Controller of Customs for Newcastle during the Commonwealth. It has ranges of windows similar to Bessie Surtees House, a central projecting bay on 1st and 2nd floors, apparently once supported by pillars, four small gables at 5th floor level. The principal room of the 2nd floor is described as panelled, with ribbed pilasters, and a ceiling which closely resembled that in the old council chamber in the guildhall. Later it became Brown's Dining Rooms and the Old Queene Elizabeth P.H. It was probably demolished for the Tyne Bridge.