Site
2 & 4, Clayport Street
CLAYPORT STREET 1. 5330 (North Side) Nos 2 and 4 NU 1813 SE 1/215 II GV 2. Including No 1 Fenkle Street. A late C18/early C19 building on the comer of Fenkle Street, altered in 1866. Three storeys. Three windows to Clayport Street and 2 to Fenkle Street. Ashlar with moulded cill string to 1st floor and cill band to 2nd floor. Slightly tented slate roof, hipped at corner; 4 brick chimneys. Late glazed sash windows, 6 on 2nd floor to Clayport Street. First floor windows have moulded architraves and pediments, 3 with carved tympana including the date 1866 and the initials JL, JL. and EA to east and JL to south ( which has one window with arch headed glazing). Ground floor part painted. 1866 shop front to east: panelled pilasters and shouldered window, round headed doorways with foliate caps, dogtooth cornice. To south are 2 round headed doorways with keystones and 6 panel doers; a small shop window in centre recently altered with plain plate glass.
Voses was the first sweet shop here. The corner on which it stood was known as Vose’s corner. Voses confectionery was manufactured in Newcastle. In 1898 John Vose sold the business to Charles Riley and Tom Maynard who formed the Maynard Company. The shop became Maynard’s, and the corner was then known as Maynard’s corner.