Wesleyan Methodist Chapel noted in Whellan's 1856 directory of Durham. There were three chapels in Easington Lane. Ryder suggests it closed in 1954.

Primitive Methodist Chapel rebuilt and enlarged in 1853 at a cost of £400. Rebuilt again 1870 and 1981. Closed 2005. The current Methodist Chapel contains a war memorial that was once located in the original chapel. Photographs show a gable-fronted building with similarities to the Houghton-le-Spring PM chapel with an attached school room in similar style to the west.

Post Office. Robert Farrow, postmaster in 1856. Letters arrived from Fence Houses are 9.30am and were dispatched there at 2.45pm.

Easington Lane village. Noted in Whellan's directory (1856) as being about a mile in length. The directory also lists the village as containing three chapels, a reading room and post office. It also contained an academy, conducted by William Kirke in 1856 (opened 1854) where youths were instructed on commerce, trade and other branches of learning. Inhabitants in 1856 included Mrs Isabella Dent, milliner and dressmaker, William Douglas, saddler, Christopher Fishwick, ropemaker, Hannibal Forrest, earthenware dealer, Thomas Knaggs, stationer and hardware dealer, Mr J.H. Little, gas engineer, Abraham McCabe, medicine vendor, Robert Thompson, linen draper. Schools were run by Miss Alice Beckwith, Mr or Mrs Fittes at Brickgarth, a Mr or Mrs Hudson, Jane Lawson and Esther Scott. Two blacksmiths are listed - George Louden and Ralph Marwood. Several boot and shoemakers - Samuel Bowler, Robert Robson, Edward Thwaite, Anthony Thompson, Peter Watson. Butchers - John Boyd, Robert Gardener, a shop of Nicholson Road, John Richardson. Cabinet makers and joiners - John Robson, J. Thompson, Robert Thompson and Henry Touks. Clock and watch maker - William Horney. Corn miller - William Scott. Drapers - Robert Abbott and Robert Thompson. Farmers - Joseph Adamson at Gargle House, John Boyd, Robert Melvin, Richard Nicholson and John Richardson. Greengrocers - Aaron Brass and John Linn. Grocers and flour dealers - Robert Cameron, Thomas Gardner (also a draper), Maria Gill, William Graham (also a draper), William Henderson, John Hunter, William Mitchell, Robert Parkin, William Richardson, Stephen Roxby (also a draper), Luke Salkeld, Christopher Story, Edward Taylor, Robert Tinkler (also a draper). Hotels, inns and taverns - the Black Horse, Bonnie Pit Lad, Cross House Inn, Davy Lamp, Free Gardeners' Arms, Grapes, Joiners' Arms, Lord Seaham, Nag's Head, Three Tuns, Travellers' Rest. Joiners and builders - Christopher Storey. Marine store dealer - Robert Parker. Painer and glazier - Robert Farrow. Tailors - John Anderson, Thomas Appleby, Martin Barfather, Jas. Charlton, John Logan, Joseph Moore, John Smith.

Post Office. Elizabeth Lambton, postmistress in 1856. Letters arrived from Fence Houses are 9.30am and were dispatched there at 2.45pm.

Wesleyan Methodist Chapel erected in 1824. The chapel contained 350 sittings, 150 of which were free. ‘Enlarged’ 1858; might original chapel be the schoolroom (dated ‘1859’) alongside? 350 sittings of which 150 free (Whellan 1856, 621). As the church building grew, so did the number of members. The Sunday school accommodated 400 children. It was not only a school but also a library and reading room. The chapel was enlarged in 1888 to hold 500 and an organ installed. Closed 1965. Chapel is now a house while the Sunday school is vacant.

Reading Room, opened in November 1849 and contained c.800 volumes, newspapers and periodicals. The Rev. J. S. Nichol was president in 1856 along with Mr John Bustin (treasurer), Robert Errington (secretary), John Swallow and Robert Lawson (librarians).

The National and Barrington School is described in Whellan's directory of 1856 as a stone building erected by subscription in 1834 at a cost of £350. It was originally built for 200 boys but then enlarged to accommodate 120 girls. In 1893 a school opened for the girls on Bog Row and Barrington became boys only. Under the patronage of the Hetton Coal Company, the Hon. Mrs Russell Barrington, Colonel Shepherdson and the Rev. George Fox. ? Wilson and Mary Ann Hall are listed as teachers. In March 1940 the school became Hetton Church of England Boys School. It closed in 1954. Coursed and roughly squared limestone with coped gables on shaped kneelers and modern tile roof. Now a mini market.

Area of ridge and furrow located close to Brenkley village (HER1329) with east-west and north-south orientated ridge and furrow. The east-west ridge and furrow has a wavelength of c.6m and a depth of 0.30m. The north-south ridge and furrow has a wavelength of 6m.

Line of holloway within field covered in ridge and furrow (HER16323). Steve Speak recorded in a 1992 assessment 'traces of a hollow way c.5m wide, trending EW…north of a sinuous bank 2.5m wide and 0.50m high'.