A steep valley or channel running roughly west to east from West Wood towards Fellside Road. The feature is 167m long, 30-40m wide and 10m deep. It is largely featureless and appears natural in origin, but its floor appears to be flattened into platforms at various points and the bottom section has a flattened floor and an associated bank running parallel with its southern lip. The upper part of the feature has been infilled, latterly by farm waste. The channel is on the same line as a trackway shown on Ordnance Survey first edition, and which still exists, through West Wood.

Ridge and furrow cultivation features occupy a wide area stretching from the line of the Western Way II Wagonway (HER 5953) westwards and southwards.

Memorial cross, 1904. Signed “GW Millburn York Sculpt” and “CC Hodges, Hexham inv. et direx”. Granite. Saxon style. Tall tapered shaft. Dedication to Bede and Eadfrith, and extracts from Bede’s writing on west. Interlace pattern and low-relief carved scenes from Bede’s life on east. Vine pattern and northern saints, with runic inscription on north. Vine and inscription on south. Hodges was the excavator of Hexham Abbey. A later inscription records that the cross was removed in 1914 and restored to this site in 1921.

Farmhouse, now house. Late C18. Rendered with painted ashlar dressings and quoins. Roof of concrete tiles with brick gable coping and chimneys. 2 storeys and attic. 6-panelled door and plain overlight in surround of pilasters and entablature with overdoor electric light attached. Renewed glazing to basement windows. Wide ground-floor windows. First floor windows same dimensions as sashes in stone surround. Roof has renewed brick gable coping. Extensions to north and south both rebuilt and not of interest.

Secondary school, now workshops. 1883. Possibly by GA Middlemiss. Brick with ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof with terracotta ridge cresting and stone gable coping. Long range with left tower on rising ground. Some Gothic detail. 2 storeys. Left end a canted return to Simpson Street in a polygonal tower. Step up to plain door and overlight recessed under flat stone lintel at right of tower. Plain double doors with blind panel above. Stone lintels and sills to sash windows. Tower has octagonal hipped roof, spirelet on open belfry. Chimney at right front.

Garden wall to east of Silksworth Cottage. C1800. Rubble with flat stone coping. High wall along front of property has brick segmental arch over boarded door in front of house. Square rubble piers at south end {1}. Warden Law Lane, which is medieval in origin, is characterised by gentle curves and these high boundary walls. Tall mature tree cover also contributes to its character. The walls have been altered in places but overall they are an excellent feature. Discreet openings in the wall lead into the private houses and gardens on the lane, or through the quaint wooden gate into Silksworth Cottage.

House. Probably late C18. Rubble stone with large quoins and ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys. Half-glazed door under stone pedimented hood on brackets. Plain stone surrounds to renewed ground floor windows and to first floor sashes. Corniced brick chimneys. The Tithe Award of 1842 suggests that this was a farmhouse. There were farm buildings adjoining it to the north in 1850.

Lamp standard, dwarf piers and chains to
Forecourt of Doxford House forebuilding. C1900. Stone piers, cast-iron lamp standard and wrought-iron chains enclose a semi-circular plot opposite the forebuilding. Bulbous rusticated base supports elaborately moulded lamp standard with large lantern, pyramidal top and spike finial. Tapered square piers with prominent cornices have iron ball finials through which chained with large spikes are slotted.

Serpentine walls from forebuilding to Doxford House continue along Warden Law Lane on east side of garden and grounds of house, to lodge at the south, and to gate piers to the rear entrance at the north. C19 altered c1900. Rubble walls with ashlar coping. Square ashlar piers with low pyramidal coping with wrought-iron lamp holders on brackets.

Originally known as Silksworth House, the house was constructed in the latter 18th century by William Johnson. On his death in 1792, the property passed to his friend, Hendry Hopper, a Durham lawyer. He in turn passed the house to his nephew, Thomas Hopper, who in turn passed the property to his daughter Priscilla along with a considerable portfolio.

In 1831, she had married William Beckwith, a Major of the 14th Kings Dragoons. Following the his role in suppressing the reform riots of Bristol that same year, where up to 250 people were killed or seriously injured, Beckwith was retired on half pay with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. With time and his wife's estate on his hands, Beckwith made extensive renovations to Silksworth House, adding the grand forebuilding and extensive landscaping of the grounds. In particular, the lake to the west and the walled garden were added under Beckwith's rebuilding, and the couple acquired a number of French works of art to decorate the property. On Beckwith's death in 1871, the house was inherited by a nephew whose family resided there until 1890. The estate was leased from this period and tenanted by the potter Christopher Maling until 1902.

Charles Doxford acquired a 99 year lease on the house in 1902 and began extensive landscaping and redevelopment of his own. Many of these schemes did not outlive him and the house passed to his children in 1939 when he died. His daughter Aline Doxford was the house's primary resident but only occupied a small portion of the property until her death in 1968. She bequeathed Silksworth House to Sunderland Corporation and they renamed the property to Doxford House in honour of the shipbuilding firm and its contribution to the city. The gardens were redeveloped into the municipal Doxford Park and the main house and its immediate grounds became a halls of residence for Sunderland Polytechnic. In 2001, the University passed the house and gardens to the Lazarus Centre, a rehabilitation charity, but they could not maintain the property and the building has been empty since 2006.

Forebuilding – Italian renaissance style with heavily rusticated pilasters to high central round-headed double door with studded panels. Similar round-arched openings in flanking bays have wrought-iron grilles. Half columns of Tuscan detail support entablature on large scroll brackets. Door keystone rises to richly-carved tympanum with rich mantling resembling heraldic device of Collingwood family.

Interior – open-well stair with turned balusters. Hall has high quality chimney-piece and overmantel with low relief Greek detail. Common room has mahogany chimney-piece and ceramic overmantel. Some panelling. Conservatory has stone imperial stair to forebuilding, with stone balustrade and cherub lampholder on newel. Elaborate cast-iron brackets to roof. House wall within conservatory has reinforced artificial stone grotto attached, with cavities and cusped bowls, stalagmites and stalactites of the same material.