This photo didn’t turn out quite as well as I’d hoped, but as it’s something that can’t normally be seen in Newcastle, I wanted to post it anyway. It’s in Alderman Fenwick’s House, an old Merchant town house on Pilgrim Street. It’s now owned by the Tyne & Wear Building Preservation Trust and mostly occupied by firms of solicitors, so it’s rarely open to the public, but two rooms were open for the Heritage Open Days. You weren’t allowed up to the top of the staircase, so I had to lean as far as I dared over the bannister to get this shot of the weathervane in the lantern tower at the top.

For more information about the building and the process of designing a new carpet for it, click here.