Willington Quay, Willington Villa

Washington Potts of Willington Ropeworks (HER 1179) built Low Willington Villa. It later became the family home of Robert Hood Haggie, then Arthur J. Haggie and his wife Kate Stewart, then Frank Dean (works manager of the ropeworks from 1903) and his wife Rosa. In 1912 when the Deans moved to Jesmond, spacious dining rooms for the ropery workers were built onto the villa.