Shown on Ordnance Survey 3rd edition of 1921. Terraced housing for workers at Washington Chemical Works.

Following the demolition of late 18th century terraced housing on Nesham Square, Maling's Rigg, Vine Street and Burleigh Street (HER 16159) during the 1930s slum clearance program, two new block of flats (social housing) known as Burleigh Garth and Wear Garth was constructed on the newly cleared area. This consisted of rows of flats arranged around an open quadrangle. Air raid shelters were constructed in the open areas. The Garth was demolished in 1998 and landscaped.

The latter part of the 18th century saw dense terraced housing develop along a regular system of streets in this area. The approximate line of Nesham Square may have been laid out before 1737 as a mainly undeveloped street depicted on Burleigh and Thompson's 1737 'Plan of the mouth of the River Wear'. Rain's 'Eye Plan of Sunderland' 1790 shows Nesham Square partly developed. Excavation (2013) on the site has confirmed the survival of the cobbled streets and footprint of buildings which date to the late 18th century. The houses were not back-to-back and had a frontage on Nesham Square with access to the rear from Maling's Rigg. The 2013 excavation revealed that the houses were of brick construction with sandstone rubble footings. Evidence of some alteration to one of the house frontages was also revealed. The terraces were demolished in the 1930s as part of slum clearance. The properties along Nesham Square, Maling's Rigg, Vine Street and Burleigh Street made way for the construction of Burleigh Garth - a large quadrangle of social housing (HER 16160).

The original No. 5 Dock was one of the Edwards' Bull Ring Docks constructed on the site of Collingwood's old dry dock and opened September 1885. It was covered over in the late 1920s. It was utilised as an underground boiler house, compressor house and oil-fuel storage tanks of about 4000 tons capacity. A new Dock No.5 was constructed adjacent to and partially over the old No.5. It is skewed at c.65 degrees to the riverside and is of concrete construction with straight sides and an asymmetric, 'v' shaped forward end. It has two sets of stairs at the aft end and a long access ramp on the south side forward. A two leaf, straight, hinged steel gate of plate and rivet construction with timber walkway over survives. The dock is 152.4m x 20.7m and 6.16m deep.

The earliest mention of the name 'Green's Field' occurs on the 1838-9 Gateshead Tithe Map (1838). The entry noted Green's Field as grass containing 9 acres, 3 roods and 38 perches. Green's Field had been purchased by the Brandling Junction Railway Company, together with the buildings and land adjoining on the east from Lord Ravensworth for £8700. The name of the field seems to have derived from one of the then occupiers Joshua Green, grocer, who in 1830 was owner of the site which became Green's Tannery in Mirk Lane. Detached house shown on the First Edition Survey Plan 1856.

Retaining walls to High Level Road and Rabbit Banks Road. Eight phases of wall were identified between the High Level Bridge and the western extent of the Boiler Shops in the 2001 assessment - none were positively identified on the First Edition OS plan (1856). Some of the walls form part of the Boiler Shop and Pattern Shop structures. One wall contains window sills and fragments of cast-iron down-corners from the 1871 boilers shop building. Another wall was noted as containing a block of sandstone with a deeply incised + cut into its face. It is possible that this is a representation of the episcopal cross and that the stone was a marker on the boundary - the 'head dyke' - between the Bishop of Durham's park and the lordship of Pipewellgate.

No surface traces of the Stationary Engine built between 1836 and 1839. The Engine was abandoned before 1894. Site covered in oil tanks in 2001. The 60 horse-power engine at Greenesfield operated the rope-hauled Brandling Junction Railway Incline from Redheugh to Green's Field and Oakwellgate (opened 1839). The incline was used for passengers and goods.

Wooden block paving was recorded under tarmac surfacing 10m west of the NE corner of the Engine Works. The paving may belong to the Smith's Shops erected between 1856-1871. The surface would have been an internal surface to the shops. Wood block paving was once commonly used as a shock-absorbing surface. The surface was recorded during the stripping of the tarmac in 2003. The blocks appeared to be of oak commonly c.200mm x 60mm x 100mm. They are closely set on a bitumen base over sand. The upper surfaces were worn and affected by damp. The block paving respects trackways of narrow gauge iron rails and a wooden 'rail' - the function of which is unclear.

North and west of the Western Engine Shed (HER16147), patches of sandstone block paving are visible among the weeds and ballast, defined on the north side by an angled masonry foundation. Some of the paving appears to cover roughly north-south aligned flues or conduits. Both the paving and foundation are associated with expansion of the Engine Shed after 1898. The foundation is part of the north wall of the extension to the shed and was designed to avoid the costs and difficulties of building out onto the steep slope above Rabbit Banks. The block paving belonged to one of the large engine turntables which occupied the extension. The paving blocks are smooth and closely jointed. The raising and pitching to the centre are probably for drainage.

The remains of a short (c.10m) upstanding section of coped walling built of red sandstone on a foundation of firebrick waste. The wall appears to coincide with sheds which developed before 1894 alongside the former Brandling Junction Railway incline. The buildings were probably demolished in 1906 with the construction of King Edward VII rail bridge leaving a reduced parapet wall. The red sandstone may have been imported from Cumberland, and the firebrick waste is likely to derive from the Rabbit Banks Fire Brick Works/ Stourbridge Fire Brick and Sanitary Pipe Works in Pipewellgate.