1852 workshop. These were some of the earliest structures on the Greenesfield site, constructed following the transition of use from a passenger station into a repairing workshop. The building contained decorative cast-ironwork in the form of columns terminating at rood level with simple fretted arched brackets. The ironwork is likely to have been produced by the Gateshead firm of Hawks Crawshay, which supplied much of the ribbing for the High Level Bridge.The north façade was sandstone ashlar with buttresses and heavy rusticated surrounds to doors and windows.

L-shaped, two storied office block built in two phases between 1858-1894 and 1894-1914. Constructed of square coursed sandstone relieved only by a plain string course at first floor level. The doorways and windows had plain surrounds. In 2003 the building was recorded - decorative cornicing, a doorway with original frame and a staircase were noted at the south end of the primary N-S range.

The Smith's Shop is locally listed. It is the only surviving part of a more extensive range of Smith's shops to the east - the rest were demolished in 1987. During recording in 2003 there was no roof, no surviving gables and the walls formed an open courtyard. The north wall is constucted of sandstone rubble, with six tall windows at ground level and six square windows on the first floor. All the windows are blocked in late 20th century brick. The west and south walls are wholly of brick. On the east wall an arch-headed opening blocked with bricks marked 'Birtley Station 1910' was noted. Against the inner face of the south wall were four cast iron columns with brackets above probably to carry overhead drives for machinery.

L-shaped range of buildings known at the pattern block shops originated as a series of structures. The first building, constructed between 1856-1864 was the north-south orientated 'Grease House' on the west side of the narrow alley beside the Police Station. Another rectangular block on an E-W alignment was built to the west in 1864 as a lamp room, brass-washing and tin-mans shop. The two ranges of buildings did not abut one another, being seperated by a narrow space carrying a drain or culvert which was subsequently blocked. The buildings were recorded in 2003 ahead of demolition.

The western engine shed was enlarged between 1857 and 1865 but apparently retained much of the external walls of the early 1850s structure. It was constructed of squared coursed local sandstone with arch-headed windows and openings surrounded by rusticated frames. The shed was further extended before 1894. Extensive alterations took place in 1963-64.The building recorded by NCAS in 2003 was almost entirely of mid-late 20th century date with fragments of the 1850s structure.

The engine shed and Greenesfield station buildings were extended northwards in 1851/2 by the addition of a lathe and erecting shop, while the original engine shed became an engine shop, later known as No.1 Erecting Shop. This formed the core of the Greenesfield Railway Workshops. The extension was of similar size to the earlier block to the south and was constructed of local sandstone but the detailed cornice and heavily rusticated quoins and voussoirs to the arched openings contrast markedly with the quasi-classical simplicity of the earlier buildings. The original station façade was fossilised within the enlarged engine shed and demolished. At this stage (or earlier) the original arched gateway onto the platform was matched by another opposing doorway in the south wall of the extension creating a through passageway.

Against the north-west corner of the extended shed, a boiler house and chimney was built, with an octagonal sandstone base rising to a circular brick chimney visible on an early photo (c.1868) looking north across Greenesfield from near Rabbit Banks farm. In 2001 the sandstone chimney base survived within later buildings, though the brick stack above has been roughly truncated and roofed over. The chimney was dismantled in 2003. The chimneystack above the sandstone base was 0.64m thick and built in white firebrick. Some of the bricks were stamped 'Marley Hill' which began producing firebricks in 1847.

A small ribbon development of buildings were constructed on the south side of Rabbit Banks Road before 1856 - probably attracted by development at Greenesfield Station (HER4374). The buildings included a public house called The Ellison Arms, in recognition of the owner of the Park estate.

Nicholas Fenwick, Henry Melbourne and John Emmerson were granted liberty to work coal reserves 'as well opened as not opened' at 'Pape hills St Wllinors Close and the Banks' in 1695. The following year the same gentlemen granted the same - and specifically the three-quarter and Bensham seams - in 'St Ellins Close and Pape Hills' to Robert Hutchinson of Gateshead. Only one old shaft, probably the Pape-hills colliery is indicated on plans to the west of Rabbit Banks and close to the Redheugh estate. During construction of the Metro line across Greenesfield c.1985 galleries from early mining were found.

The present road line of High Level Road and Rabbit Banks Road may follow a medieval boundary known variously as 'le heddyke Episcopi' or 'fosso Domini Dunelm', which seperated the backlands of properties on the south side of Pipewellgate from the lands retained by the Bishop to the south. In modern accounts the boundary has been variously described as 'a hedge and ditch'.