Timber yard depicted on the first edition OS map of 1859. Appears in its final layout on the fourth edition of 1942. Aerial photographs from 1945 show that it was damaged by German bomber raids. It may have been demolished after this time. Two smaller timber yards are shown on the first edition map west of Sheepfolds Pottery and Bridge Foundry. They served the shipyards on the River Wear and included saw pits, smithies and boilers for preparing wood for ship building. In 2018 an archaeological trench was excavated across the timber yard. The tops of demolished sandstone walls of a building were exposed at 0.4m below ground level. Two substantial north-south stone walls were identified forming the east and west sides of a structure shown on the first edition map. They survived to two courses high and were 0.55m high and 0.4m wide. An east to west partition wall had subsequently been built in brick between the two, and the stone walls were lined with a brick skin. Inside the walls of the building a pale greyish yellow clay included a small number of 18th century pottery sherds and clay tobacco pipe. The building was backfilled by dumped layers of sand and flint and chalk rubble (probably derived from ships ballast) and red brick rubble. The foundation of a less substantial wall was located parallel to and east of the stone building. It consisted of a single course of grey granite. A square posthole 0.25m deep was recorded cut through a thin surface of pale grey sand in the timber yard.

During geophysical survey in 2016 and archaeological evaluation at Mount Lane in 2018, erractically-curving, long, deep but narrow post-medieval ditches were identified cutting the natural bedrock. The trenches were v-shaped in profile, up to 1.6m wide and up to 1.48m deep. The ditches were filled with a dark greyish brown sandy silt with frequent angular sandstone fragments (natural subsoil) and contained post-medieval pottery. The pottery included a piece of sponged ware of post 1840 date, a sherd from a grey salt-glazed stoneware jar and plain and transfer-printed whitewares of 19th or early 20th century date. The ditches may have been dug as a means of geological prospection on a hillside that was known to contain coal seams.

On 21st October 1886 plans were submitted to construct a new High School on Mowbray Road, Sunderland, within the formal gardens of Carlton House (renamed as such in 1885, prior to that known as Nicholson House). The work was financed by the London Council, who had bought the land in 1885 for £2,300. The new school was designed by Tillman & Tillman, a Sunderland based architectural firm. The foundation stone was laid on 22ⁿd February 1887 by the Dowager Marchioness of Londonderry, with the school finally opening its doors to pupils a year later on the 7th February 1888. In Audrey Sayers’ Sunderland Church High School for Girls: a Centenary History, the original school is described thus: “The only stairs to the basement were the dark narrow twisting ones at the front. In the basement were the cloakroom and a drying-room for children’s clothes in wet weather, the kitchen, dining room, and a coke-fired boiler for the central heating. Most rooms also had open fireplaces. The present (1984) staffroom, office, headmistress’s room and Room 1 were the headmistress’s room, reception room, and assistant mistresses ‘ rooms respectively.
Today’s library was two separate classreooms, and the room behind the hall could be divided into two by a folding partition… the two attics were the resident caretakers’ living accomodation.”
As an interesting side note, apparently the original caretakers were dismissed after only two years due to “insolence and poor cooking” whereupon it became the headmistress’ job to appoint new staff.

The overall layout of the site remained the same until the 1960s, when in 1968, the southern 1940s building was extended north, and two new buildings were constructed to the south of the main school building. At
this time the new toilet/bathroom was added as an extension to the southeast side of the building. The school as a whole closed in 2016.

Substantial later Victorian terrace house, built in 1877 as part of the Brandling Village development. Constructed of brick in English Garden Wall Bond 1 & 3 with tooled dressings of sandstone ashlar. Three storeys. It is an asymmetrical plan at the junction of two terraces. Known as 'Eslington Tower' due to the polygonal bay set at the angle with a slated spire above eaves level. Double width front door surrounded by Doric pilasters with fluted detail ablove and dentilled cornice. The house has latterly been in use as a school (part of Central High School). Inside original cornices, skirtings, ceiling roses and the staircase survive. Being converted into five flats in 2017.

The site was given to Armstrong College by Dr Cecil Cochrane, Chair of Armstrong College's Finance Committee, shortly after the First World War to provide playing fields for the students. The earliest part of the building is a groundsman's house of 1922, erected at the expense of George Henderson, Chair of the Newcastle and Gateshead Water Company. Henderson also provided a tea room on the site. The sports pavilion was added in 1923-4, again funded by George Henderson. The total cost was £10,000. The pavilion is a brick building with a red clay tile roof and rendered details. In the middle bay there is a datestone of 1922 and the initials GEH (George Henderson). A continuous verandah runs across the front of the building. The Centre bays break forward to form a balcony under a gable with a clock. The balcony rails carry the Armstrong College arms at the centre, flanked by the monograms for Cecil Cochrane and George Henderson. The balcony and verandah roof are carried on brick piers, rendered on the upper floor, and Doric columns. The upper rooms are lit by large dormer windows. Inside there are large rooms at the middle of each floor, flanked by staircases. Outside these are the changing rooms, showers and lavatories.

In 1936 workshop buildings were built for the wheelwright Cartright on the site of the packing house (HER 17581) for the Ford A Pottery. The Ordnance Survey fourth edition 6" to one mile plan of 1942 labels the building as 'Carriage Works'. The fifth provisional edition 1:2500 of 1952 labels it as a 'Coach Works'. The building still survives and has latterly been in use as R & J Ince Builders & Timber Merchants and DS Motors. Quite an attractive industrial building, brick single storey workshop with a square chimney which served the carriage works furnace. Two storey office at the the eastern end. Inside, the sandstone north wall of the previous pottery packing house (HER 17581) survives and so does the tunnel (HER 7057) which linked the packinghouse to Ford A Pottery.

A packinghouse was built by Maling on the opposite side of Ford Street to the Ford A Pottery (HER 4968). The packinghouse was described as "an additional range of warehouses, five storeys in height, the upper floors of which have been devoted to the commendable purpose of a school for the children of the workmen". A tunnel was built between the two. Tyne and Wear Archives holds a plan dated 15th September 1868 which shows the proposed new warehouse and the tunnel. The packinghouse is shown on the Ordnance Survey second edition of 1898. The packing house was demolished by 1936 when a carriage works (HER 17582) was built.

Possible Iron Age or Romano-British enclosure, visible on Google Earth. 45m x 47m.

Possible Iron Age or Romano-British enclosure, visible on Google Earth from 2015. 67m x 62m. East facing entrance.

Possible Iron Age or Romano-British enclosure, visible on Google Earth from 2015. 50m x 61m. Two possible hut circles.