In the gateway to British Rail's yard on Burdon Road is a fountain of lead or cast iron set into the stone boundary wall. The inscription reads: "NIL DESPERANDUM - AUSPICE DEO".

The remains of a derelict cottage known as "Keelman's Cottage", at the lower end of the Blaydon Burn.

On 7th March 1703/4 Lord Widdrington granted a 99 year lease to Albert Silvertop of this house at the foot of Summerhill Bank. Although called Stella House, because it faced east and its many windows reflected the early sun, the keelmen called it "The Rising Sun". Stella House was a rambling house with projecting attic windows. Though built at the beginning of the 18th century, it was much added to later. Many notable families lived in this unpretentious house, firstly the Silvertop family, subsequently Edward Emmerson, a local iron-founder, followed by Joseph Cowen, eldest son of Sir Joseph, then Mr Thomas Young Hall, an engineer and Joseph Roberts. The last owner was Joseph Mordue of Blaydon. The main house was demolished in 1971 but the rear wing survives and is listed. Listed building description: House. Late C17/early C18.Rendered rubble and brick, pantiled roof with stone
gable coping. 2 storeys, 2 bays. South elevation to road: first bay of rubble has ground floor window boarded up and first floor sash with glazing bars, both with flat stone lintels and wide projecting stone sills. Brick second bay, blind at ground floor, has first floor band under sash window with glazing bars. Right return rendered. Left return has C20 boarded door. Roof has cavetto-moulded stone coping to shaped gable at left, brick header course to shaped gables between bays and at right; one corniced ashlar chimney left, 2 of brick at centre ridge and end right: High wall adjoining left return and running north contains boarded door in pointed-arched surround and small window; obelisk finial to shaped gable with cavetto moulded stone coping. Historical note: surviving rear wing of Stella House.

On the top of Summerhouse Hill stands an octagonal building known locally as Lord Widdrington's Summerhouse. It is a fine octagonal brick structure with blocked arched windows on each side and originally domed. The actual date of construction is not known but was probably between 1700 and 1715 during the time of Lord Widdrington's residency at Stella (see HER ref. 1694). Joseph Cowen erected a statue of Garibaldi beside the summerhouse in 1867, in honour of the Italian patriot's visit to Tyneside in 1854. It stood about 7feet tall and was sculpted by Burn of Newcastle. Following the collapse of the statue, the head is on display in Blaydon Library and the body was recently discovered in a local allotment. LISTED GRADE 2

In Path Head Wood are the remains of an old bath house. It was probably built about the same time as the summerhouse (HER 1699) when Lord Widdrington was in residence at Stella Hall (HER 1694) and before he took part in the 1715 Jacobite uprising, thus making it one of the earliest park buildings in the north-east {1}. DESCRIPTION
This bath house may well be contemporary with the summerhouse on Summerhill, which was probably built at a time when Lord Widdrington was in residence at Stella Hall (early in the 18th century). If so, it is one of the earliest park buildings in the north east, but it could have been built later for Thomas Clavering. Built of brick to the outer leaf, with sandstone internal walls, it is compact in size and gothic in style, with pointed-arched window openings. Bath houses were one example of the various buildings (including follies, grottoes and temples) utilised by landscape designers of the picturesque movement, in order to create interest and assist perspective in a landscape. They were also functional buildings normally containing at least a plunge pool and dressing room, and were very useful before houses had plumbed water. Other bath houses were situated around the region, including at Gibside and Benwell, and design and plan form varied, but this one consists of an entrance vestibule and 2 wings. It speaks of a time when leisure and wealth were displayed by such means around the estates of prominent persons, and gives a good indication of the elevated status of the inhabitants of the hall. The building is now in a semi-ruinous condition due to neglect and vandalism, but ironically it could be argued that this (without the defacing) is in keeping with the picturesque aesthetic out of which it arose. MATERIALS Sandstone DATES 18th century

In existence by the 1840s. It had a clock donated by a Mr Dunn in 1855. At a school inspection in 1849 there were 31 boys and 34 girls in attendance. It was replaced by a new building in 1974.

An early Catholic church building with a castellated villa-like presbytery concealing the church behind; a curious throwback to pre-Emancipation times, when Catholic churches were often concealed so as not to attract attention. Stella Church was designed by the architect John Green. While he was working on the design for the Catholic Chapel and clergyman's house at Stella, he also had the contract for the design of the Scotswood Suspension Bridge which was opened in 1831. He was also responsible for the Grey Column (1837-8), The Theatre Royal Newcastle (1836-7), the Literary and Philosophical Society building (1822-1825), Penshaw Monument (1844) and many others. No detailed plans exist for the chapel though an illustration which was drawn on stone by John Green's son Benjamin shows the chapel in its original form before later alterations. It was built at an estimated cost of £1,500. It is a Gothic structure which buttresses and narrow lights. It was originally 68ft long by 33.5ft broad with a plain interior and was able to contain about 300 persons. The tower was 50ft high and was ornamented with a turret containing a library and was the residence of the chaplain. It was built of good ashlar stone and the presbytery was gabled and the turrets castellated. Originally the chancel was at the north end of the church with the main entrance at the south end. The church was opened by Dr Penswick, Vicar Apostolic, on 12 October 1831. In 1849 the church was enlarged, the chancel being moved to the south end and a new entrance inserted on the west wall in its present position. The alterations are thought to be by John Dobson. In 1972 the property was showing signs of age and decay when the stonework was restored, the rear of the church was repaired and a new screen, office and quiet room inserted {1}.
Chancel to the north, masking the south façade the attached presbytery, gabled and with castellated angle turrets, of good ashlar stone. Most of the stained glass is by Barnett of Newcastle (a pupil of Wailes) and dates from after 1849 though Pevsner notes some glass reputed to be by Pugin (and presumably made by Hardman). At the north (liturgical west) end of the nave is an organ gallery with a modern organ. The gallery has a modern timber front and modern glazing below enclosing a vestibule and office. This work apparently dates from the 1970s. The nave benches are also modern, in light wood, and may date from the same time.
The church was listed Grade II in 1985 with the following description:
'Roman Catholic church and presbytery. 1831-1832 by John Green; 1848- 849, porch, chancel and fleche by Dobson. Church: coursed squared sandstone with plinth and ashlar dressings; roof Westmorland slate with stone gable copings. Aligned north-south. Nave and chancel.
Six-bay nave has alternate block jambs and sloping sills to lancet windows; gabled buttresses between. In second bay steeply-gabled porch with elaborate doorway. Above porch a three-mouchettes window.Chancel has three lancets and stepped buttresses. Cross finials to low-pitched roof of nave and steeply-pitched of chancel. Octagonal stone belfry over chancel arch has weather vane finial to spirelet.
Interior: deep splays to lancets; pointed chancel arch with dog-tooth on shafted columns with foliage capitals. Chancel has sedilia on south, seat in imitation of wall tomb on north. Gothic revival altar, and wood communion rail.
Glass in the first north bay of nave, in memory of Thomas Parker, priest, died 1847. Other good Victorian glass, also in porch. Presbytery attached to north: sandstone ashlar; roof concealed by parapet. Perpendicular style. Three storeys, five windows x two. North elevation of one, three and one windows has central projecting bay and corner turret. Central pointed-arched door between shafts recessed in flat-headed surround, with mouchettes in spandrels under label mould; above this a three-light transomed window between bracketed niches under label moulds; ogee-headed niches in gable peak. Flanking recessed bays have two-light windows; square turrets one-light sash window with stone mullions.
Roof: high central ridge flanked by two low ledges. Interior: turrets provide corner cupboards; some Gothick, some three-over-three panelled doors; blocked door on second landing formerly communicated with organ loft of church.' LISTED GRADE 2

Opposite the Catholic church at Stella once stood a thatched cottage in which tradition states that royalist officers spent the night before battle. The cottage, which was an inn, was probably used as an officers' mess, while Stella Hall (HER 1694) was used as the headquarters. It was later given the name Cromwell's Cottage during the time the Protector's army was encamped on Stella Haughs on his travels to and from Scotland {1}. Cromwell left London on June 29th 1650 to march to Scotland to meet General Leslie who had defeated the English at Newburn Ford/Stella Haughs in 1640 (see HER 1297). By 15th July 1650 Cromwell's army was at Newcastle. They had rested at Whickham for two days. On July 22nd Cromwell crossed the Tweed and on September 3rd, met General Leslie at Dunbar, where the Scots were defeated, 4000 being killed and over 10,000 taken prisoner. On his return from Scotland, Cromwell camped his army at Ryton Haugh and he stayed at Stella Hall. Newcastle Corporation paid for a present worth £50 for Lord-General Cromwell while he was at Stella.

At the time of the dissolution the original house was granted to three friends of Henry VIII, and the lease was eventually puchased by Robert Anderson who was later one of the lords of Winlaton who pulled down the old house. The Tempests rebuilt the hall in the Grand Elizabethan style. They included secret rooms to harbour fugitive priests. In 1640 during the Battle of Newburn Ford (HER ref. 1297), Lord Conway established his headquarters at Stella Hall. The estate passed by marriage to Lord Widdrington in the early 18th century and later became the home of Joseph Cowen who owned the Blaydon Burn Brickworks. A large irregular building, essentially late 16th century-early 17th century in style, the south front partly remodelled for Lord Widdrington in the mid 18th century. The south front faced a beautiful small park. It was demolished circa 1955.

The first evidence for this windmill is on a map dated 1746 but it is probably much older. Eventually it became a mill for the crushing of clay for use by an adjacent brick and tile business (HER ref. 4143). It stood at the corner of what later became Shield Street and Camden Street close to where Lort House stands today.