Group of linear farm buildings. Has deteriorated since the building of the Throckley by-pass in 1974/5. A photograph of the farm was published in 1969 in Allsopp & Clark's "Historic Architecture of Northumberland". The building faces south and stretches for a total length of 125ft in a east-west direction. The main part, latterly used as a house is of sandstone and is divided into two rooms by a dividing wall that accommodates a fireplace in each room and supports a central chimney. There is an extension to the west which is fitted out as a stable. The building extends eastwards in three stages, in sandstone and latterly brick, the construction of these taking the form of a lean-to. The main building and western extension were roofed with pantiles, but these have been almost entirely removed, the lean to with corrugated iron, of which some traces remain. The stonework is of irregular sandstone blocks, but the corners are quoined. The whole range of buildings show signs of many alterations, with bricked up openings and repairs. The building was latterly used by a coal merchant and parts of the front (south) wall have been removed to provide garage and loading facilities. The roof has almost certainly been renewed at some time, perhaps when the brick extensions were added. This may account for a curious feature in the gable ends of the main building and the Western extension. The gables are finished by shaped fire-bricks which key together to form the outline of the pitched roof, a different design being used in each to suit the different slopes of each roof {1}. Cuddy Coats Hall was a medieval farmhouse of great historic value, one of the last remaining linear farm developments with the cow barn built on the side of the house. Cuddy Coats dates to the C14 and was last lived in just after the war, but has been used since as a coal merchant's store. It has been empty for about four years and is rapidly crumbling because of the new Horsley to Heddon by-pass workings next to the building {2}. Whilst linear farms were probably characteristic of Northumbrian farms of the C17 and 18th century, some were still being built in C19. Cutty Coats is on a site of long standing. It is a primitive patchwork of extension, rebuilding and modification, mainly rubble built but using a variety of other materials. Part of its fabric could date from the early 18th century, even the C17. It is entirely functional and retains its basic linear form. Cutty Coats was presumably originally based on subsistence farming, relying heavily on the use of common land. It could have operated in conjunction with a larger farm on which its inhabitants were primarily employed. A bridle path runs the farm, which would have once seen many lead-carrying packhorses. It is possible that Cutty Coats may have been the home base for a smallholder involved in the lead-carrying trade. Very little land was associated with the farm and there was little provision for sheltering animals or for storing their foodstuffs. Basically single storeyed, there are no signs of a staircase, although a skylight suggests that the boarded loft may have been used as sleeping quarters. The central fire stack is a little surprising, although during the C17 central-stack farmhouses were very common in Lowland England, but usually having 2 storeys and the entrance directly opposite the fire stack. One concludes that the plan form at Cutty Coats derives from piecemeal modifications rather than purposeful design. Most of the walls show sign of alteration, sometimes in firebrick, and the roof includes pantiles in various clays, felt and corrugated iron. Until recently, a dustbin served as a chimney pot. For the last few years, the property has been used by a coal merchant and the outbuildings, of which all but the stable have lean-to roofs, show few signs of their former use. One of the oldest structures in the Throckley area {3}.

East Farm was a freehold farmstead consisting of farmhouse, barn, strawhouse, stables, large cow houses, granary and two hind's cottages. Shown on a township map of 1730. The Ordnance Survey map of 1897 shows a Middle Brunton West Farm and an East Farm, each with their own farmstead. West Farm was converted into Brunton Mews in the 1970s. The West Farmhouse is now Spring House. The barns in east farm were demolished in the 1950s and replaced with large portal framed buildings. The East Farmhouse is now East House (with an extension rendered and painted mustard yellow).

An archaeological desk-based assessment conducted in 2019 identified the sites' potential for prehistoric remains due to the concentration of prehistoric sites in the immediate vicinity and the lack of development on the site. The report recommends that an evaluation is conducted prior to ground works to assess whether further archaeological mitigation is required.

Ballast Hills Graveyard was the most important non-conformist burial ground in Newcastle. The origins of the burial ground lay in the influx of foreign and Scottish families into the area in the early and mid C17. Many European Protestants settled in the St. Lawrence area of Newcastle, and using materials from the ballast heaps, established glasshouses. Many of these immigrants adopted Quakerism. Further, many Scotsmen also came into Newcastle in the C17 and 18th century, and being Presbyterians, they too did not wish to bury their dead in Anglican burial grounds. This was also the case with Baptists, Independents and Methodists which grew up in the latter half of the 18th century. This plot was probably chosen for this purpose in the early years of the C17. It is thought that burials started here possibly as early as the plague year of 1609 and the use of the land for this purpose was increased in the later plague-ridden years of 1625, 1636 and 1665. Indeed this site is often referred to as "Plaguey Fields". The earliest recorded headstone is said to be 1707. Certainly the ground was heavily used and informally run throughout the 1700s. With the growth of housing in the surrounding area the condition of the cemetery became a cause for concern in the 1780s. Complaints about children playing amongst the headstones and pigs rooting around at the gravesides, led to a petition of the Newcastle Corporation in 1785 for leave to enclose the ground within a wall or paling and to execute all necessary repairs. Following this a wall was built and a grave diggers house constructed. The use of the ground was heavy. A letter in the Newcastle Courant on March 12th 1825 said that during the years 1818 to 1824 there had been more funerals at the Ballast Hills than in all the parochial churchyards of Newcastle together. The cemetery was filling rapidly and a movement was started to enlarge it. Enlargement of the site began in 1827. The majority of people buried at Ballast Hills appear to have been working people or shopkeepers. There were few "professional" people registered as interned there. The surviving registers and headstones, which date from the mid 18th century record a high percentage of infant and child mortality. Also buried at the site are a number of 18th century non-conformist ministers of Newcastle, including the Rev. John Cawley (1723-1792), converted by John Wesley in 1743 and described by Wesley as one of the best preachers in England. The graveyard must have fallen out of use in 1853/4, after the cholera epidemic, as the last entry in the register of burials is dated September 18th 1853. In 1930 the cemetery was laid out as a playground. The remaining tombstones were laid down as flagging for paths, but a number were positioned in one corner in standing positions. The site remains, to date (June 1989), an open space; the former tombstones have suffered erosion and wear but many are still decipherable. Graves include James Robertson (1758-1797) minister of Sallyport Meeting House; Robert Gilchrist (1797-1844) sailmaker and poet; C Reid (died 1794) silversmith; Andrew Bell (died 1815) tallow chandler from Gateshead; Ralph Symington, joiner; Thomas Davidson (died 1742); William Robson, tinplate worker; Cuthbert Johnson (died 1839) tobacconist; Thomas Nelson (died 1848) waterman; William Steell (died 1775) keelman {Morgan 2004}.

Documentary evidence suggests that the waterfront was not fully developed until the late C13 or C14. There is archaeological evidence to suggest that reclamation was necessary before the Quayside could be laid out in its present form. The land was reclaimed from the river in the C14, timber piers became chares where houses were built between them. The Quayside had buildings on the north side, but was, obviously, open to the river on the south side. There were no minor streets or chares running off the Quayside before 1376, although the word "Key" is used four times from 1332 to 1366. From Sandhill to Sandgate there were 20 chares which survived until the mid C19. Most were so narrow that two people could not walk abreast. Their date of origin is unknown, earliest reference is C14. From west to east they were:
Dark Chare (or Brounchare in 1425)
Grindon Chare (1394) - there was a house here called Collingwood in 1588
Blue Anchor Chare (or Tod’s in C16)
Peppercorn Chare (Grip or Gripes in 1334 and 1489 and Norham in C16)
Palester Chare (Strenchare in 1402, Philipchare in 1430 amd C16 and Errington in 1489)
Colvin’s Chare (Shipman’s Chare or Grapecuntlayne in 1588). There was a Grey's Inn here in 1466.
Hornsby’s Chare (Burton in 1478 and 1493, and Brokes or Hornbyse in 1536, Olyver’s in 1589)
Plumber Chare (Galway in C16)
Fenwick’s Chare
Broad Garth
Peacock Chare (today Customs House Yard)
Trinity Chare
Rewcastle Chare
Broad Chare (1334)
Spicer Lane (Spice Lane in 1562)
Byker Chare (Byker Chaier in 1554)
Burn Bank (1393)
Cock’s Chare
Love Lane
The west end of the town's quay was known as Wundowes (1486) and the Windowes (1582) - could indicate a lighthouse or a windlass? Waste ground in the Quayside was called Coleyardes in 1412. Off the Quayside was Denom Chare (1366), Driden Chare (1569), Rodyschare (1431), Russell's Chare (1318 and 1594) There are three pieces of evidence which seem to show that the Quayside as a roadway was a construction of the late C14 - a Royal galley was launched from the mouth of the Pandon Burn in 1294, in 1342 a grant was made of land from Fishergate to the "ground-ebb of the Tyne" and in 1366 a messuage was described as lying on the Key. This may not indicate a continuous quay along the waterfront, but perhaps quays or staiths at the end of the chares. By 1376 William de Galway acquired a burgage "near the Keyside". The Quayside is referred to as "The King's Highway". How it was constructed is not known (borehole evidence show that ground has been deliberately raised by infilling up to 6m deep), but until the Quayside existed the town wall could not be built from Sand Gate to Sandhill (HER 1566). Bourne says that there were gates in the town wall through which masters and seamen could go to and from their ships. In 1616 only two of these gates were left open during the night, and these were manned, to prevent people throwing rubbish into the river. The Quayside is named "The Key on Hutton's map of 1770 with a low crane opposite Broad Chare and a high crane at the guildhall. Bourne describes a crane on the Quayside (a safe station for ships where they lie free and secure from the dangers of wind and water) for unloading wines, flax and other heavy goods. The Customs House was at the west end of the Quayside. He goes on to say that this long wharf is built upon sand and that the key extends in length from east to west 103 Rods. The street was mostly inhabited by merchants, hostmen, brewers and those involved in the coal trade etc. There were many taverns, ale-houses and coffee houses. By19th century the Newcastle quays extended for a length of about 4,620ft along the north bank of the River Tyne, from the swing bridge, eastward to the mouth of the Ouseburn. In about 1840 a section of quay was erected by Mr. Anderson, the then river engineer to the Corporation. A portion of this quay, which was built in front of an older one, still remains. On 7th October 1854, there was a great fire on the Quayside, which destroyed many quayside properties (a view by Henry Brady shows the devastation near Broad Chare). After the fire Dobson designed a commercial grid of streets - Queen Street, King Street and Lombard Street. Prior to 1866 the quays extended from the old Tyne Bridge to the east end of Rotterdam Wharf (east of Swirle). The extension of the quays eastward from Rotterdam Wharf was commenced in 1866, and by 1874 they had been extended to the Ouseburn. After the Swing Bridge was built in 1876 stone-built banks, shipping and insurance offices replaced the timber-framed and brick houses along the east side of Sandhill (Nos. 13-18). The 19th century quay walls and bollards are listed grade 2. The chares originated in the 13th century. After the consolidation of the river bank, piers were built out towards the river, with docking spaces between them. Later the docks were filled with debris to make a continuous raised platform so the streets could be set out and buildings erected. Fenwick's Entry and Broad Garth were established in this way in the 13th century. The striking arrangement of the chares was common in other medieval seaports. The Key (today's Quayside) represents a joining up of the piers or jetties at the south ends of the chares to create a continuous highway, but it does not seem to have been in existence until the second half of the 14th century. The Key, particularly around Pandon came to be densely occupied and quite industrial. The earliest structures were timber, replaced in stone in the 13th and 14th century. Dated C13-14th.

The Percy Iron Works date from the first half of the C19. The L shaped block with slate roof and part of the workshop in the north west corner of the site to the rear of 91-95 Percy Street are remnants of the iron works but have no apparent features relating them specifically to this industry {1}.

Mid 19th century group of single storey buildings on a typical U shaped plan-form. Projecting from the rear of the central range is a two-storeyed barn, presumably erected as a threshing barn. Common to the planned farm arrangements of the period, the buildings form a south facing fold yard. The structures are of stone with dressed stone lintels and quoins. There are arched arcaded entrances into the central range. The roofs are slate, but the east wing of the arrangement has a pantile roof, possibly reflecting the original roofing material. There is a suggestion from the appearance of part of the structure that the existing arrangement was created utilising an earlier building. If this is the case the earlier part would still be early to mid C19. There is a possible small engine bed within the two storey barn. As well as the farmstead buildings there is a farm house which stands immediately to the south of the western arm of the complex. Of no great architectural merit, it is a stern, solid stone building probably dating from the same period as the farm complex. Nearby, bordering the road to the farm are two, unfortunately damaged and burnt out, farm dwellings which appear to have contained both accommodation and "stabling" for either animals or machinery, having a large entrance arch at ground level, as well as domestically proportioned rooms, firegrates and decorative chimneys. The window arrangements are interesting, being of different sizes and proportion but obviously part of the original design {1}.

At the centre of the Conservative Working Men's Club is a sandstone ashlar 2 storey house. It has three bays, a characteristically pitched roof and maybe identified with the house shown on the 1767 plan, later identified as belonging to Mr. Thomas Thompson. It may overlie an earlier structure since it lies at a significant point on the turnpike road (SMR 1191). There is an undated plan of Mr. Thompson's House (NCLLSS Seymour Bell Collection 5/16). It shows another house abutting it to the east, possibly belonging to a Michael Lindsay.

The solid geology of the area is of Westphalian C & B sandstones with three coal crop lines running diagonally across the site, two of which are known to have been worked at some time in the past. It is likely that the exploitation of coal in the vicinity goes back hundreds of years; certainly to the later medieval period. Two pits lie in Kenton Close, this one is called Kenton Pit and the other one (SMR 1591) is unnamed. Kenton Pit lies adjacent to Heaton Park Road, and is shown surrounded by trees on the 1858 OS map. It is also shown on a Plan of Low Heaton c1740. It closed some time between 1858 and 1894. There does not appear to have been a waggonway associated with these pits {1}.

The solid geology of the area is of Westphalian C & B sandstones with three coal crop lines running diagonally across the site, two of which are known to have been worked at some time in the past. It is likely that the exploitation of coal in the vicinity goes back hundreds of years; certainly to the later medieval period. Two pits lie in Kenton Close, one is called Kenton Pit (SMR 1592) and this one is unnamed. It may be Lady Pit shown on a Plan of Low Heaton c1740. This pit is only shown on one map, a plan of the Manor of Byker of c.1810, and probably exploited the Top Ryhope Little coal seam which outcropped in the area. There does not appear to have been a waggonway associated with these pits.

This cinema was built as part of the "talkies" boom and was opened in 1933. During the Second World War it was hit by bombs and closed as a result. During the 1960s decline in cinema attendance it became an "entertainment centre", a venue hosting both film and bingo. It finally closed in 1987. In 1990 the building was taken over by Autospray, a car re-painting company. The interior retained none of the cinema features such as seating or stage {1}. Pascal Steinlet was the architect for the Apollo. The front elevation was cement render finished in white. Above the electrically illuminated canopy were four large windows of amber glass, lit from the foyer. In the entrance hall were the payboxes and beyond these the stalls foyer, with walls shaded from flame orange to light cream, with geometric patterns in red and green on the beams. Above the proscenium on the domed ceiling was the figure of a modern Apollo on a modern throne with the sun behind, with telephone and cocktail on the arms, the equivalent of song and music. This rather odd interpretation of Greek mythology was in keeping with the unusual decorative scheme. The Apollo was officially opened on 28 December 1933.In May 1941 the cinema took a direct hit from a German bomb. For years after the War the remains of the Apollo were a vast advertising hoarding. Finally in 1955, permission was given to rebuild the Apollo to its 1933 plan. The main façade was virtually unaltered from the original. The new Apollo opened in March 1956. In 1962, the owners decided that bingo would be more profitable and closed it. In June 1964 the Apollo was reopened as a cinema. The Apollo Entertainment Centre closed in October 1983. In 1989 it was opened by Autospray as a car maintenance centre. The foyer has been attractively redesigned, but the most eyecatching feature is the rear of a red mini car protruding from the façade {1}. Now demolished.