A house dated by Knowles c. 1600, demolished 1909, situated - according to him - on the W side of what is now Station Road, according to OS 1st ed. on the E side, just N of the old railway track, and traditionally called the Manor House. Photo in NCH shows a 2-storey building in coursed stone rubble with dressed quoins, and a pantile/stone flag roof. Each gable had a stone chimney stack, and stone water tables with ball finials on the kneelers. The house was of 3 bays, with a central door between 2 3-light windows on the ground floor, a 2- light window between 2 3-light windows above. All windows are of mullion and transom type with dripstones. The dripstone over the door incorporates a central label, with ? Shield {1-3}. Two fireplaces from the manor are said to have been reinstated at Washington Old Hall. Its recorded residents included Thomas Finney, a surgeon, in the 1850s and Thomas Hayes in 1879 {4}.

In the C16 the medieval tower (SMR 1289) was enlarged by the addition of a wing to the N, and ? later (precise dates not known) by a wing to the E, and another opposite, to form a three-sided square. (See early maps). Cf. Halton, Dilston, Chipchase etc. The C16 addition was 40 feet long, 2 storeys high and connected to the tower. There were 3 fireplaces in its ground floor room, and Knowles suggests it was the kitchen wing, a hall wing perhaps having projected to the E. (If he was right about this, it must have been demolished for the later S wing). The S wing was demolished, unrecorded, in 1891, and there is no information about the E side. The rest came to be sited in Spencer's Steel Works, and was apparently demolished by 1966 {1-3}. In 1765 Mrs Lydia Bell, a widow, was living there. A later resident was Mrs Elizabeth Hall (1855). In the early19th century the property was still very extensive but in 1891 the east wing burnt down. About this time the Hall became incorporated into the former Spencer's Steel Works. Before the clearance of the site in the 1920s, it was used as a store for the pattern-shop {4}.

Tower, 39'9" N-S x 25' E-W externally, 20'8" x 16'7" inside, a minimum of 2 storeys high, built of coursed masonry, with large quoins some of which were re-used Roman stones. Vaulted basement, with door in E wall, a loop in each of the other 3, a straight stair in the S wall. Garderobe on first floor at foot of stairs to second. Stub of ?barmkin wall at SE corner. Said by Bates to be C15. Cf. Corbridge vicar's pele, Halton. In C16 wings were added to N and E to form Newburn hall. In 1895 the tower was in Spencer's Steel Works. In 1966 the OS noted that the hall had been demolished and the site redeveloped. Dated C15th.

"Building-stone seen by Stukeley in 1725 over a stable door next to the Boat Inn, Newburn; the inscription, surrounded by an ansate frame, was even then illegible, and is now lost. As no site has yet been proved at Newburn, presumably this stone came from some part of Hadrian's Wall in that neighbourhood".

"Building-stone, 15 x 11 in, found in 1887 built into (W jamb of S window of) the Pele-tower at Newburn... Near the left margin is an inscribed vexillum, near the right a standard. In the centre is an eagle. leg(ionis) XX V(aleriae) V(ictricis) / c(o)ho(rtis) IIII/ c(enturia) Lib(urni) Fro(ntonis) / c(enturia) Tere(nti) Mag(ni). On the vexillum: leg(io) / XX From the Twentieth Legion Valeria Victrix and from the fourth cohort the century of Liburnius Fronto and the century of Terentius Magnis (built this). Twentieth Legion". "Stevens... considers that this is 'perhaps a "carry", from Benwell (fort) but may be from a fort at Newburn'. As, however, Benwell lies nearly 3 miles from Newburn, and no site has yet been proved at Newburn, it seems best to place this inscription among items of uncertain origin. The flanking reliefs and the mention of two centuries make the stone exceptional". Dated C2.

Found during field walking west of Walbottle "a worked point, probably an awl, made from a piece of flint which was much larger when struck from the core, but which was broken in antiquity. The secondary retouch along both sides reaches the break which forms the base of the triangle. The trimming is rather crude - not Mesolithic in character. The flint itself is an uncommon colour (pale pinkish)".

A hollow-based flint arrowhead was found in 1974 in a field north of Dewley Hill. "Length 37 mm max, max. width 17 mm, thickness 3 mm. Fine ripple flaking".

"Hadrian's Wall crossed the Sugley Burn by means of a culvert, two feet square, covered by the drive to West Denton Hall". The OS calculated the above grid reference by consulting their 1st ed. 25" map, but pointed out that the precise location could not now be established since it lies under the dual carriageway of the A69. Dated C2.

"Building-stones seen before 1732 by a mason at Throckley, and recorded by Horsley. Now lost. Reprinted from Horsley". V, X

"Building-stone, 9 x 4 in, found in 1864 at milecastle 10, near Walbottle Dene House". c(enturia) Car((... "The century of Car((...". Dated C2.