Electricity substation built in 1940. A single-storey flat-roofed brick structure surrounded by a windowless brick-fronted concrete blast wall. The blast wall is of reinforced concrete with red-brick facing which appears to be in Flemish bond. It encloses an area measuring 14.22m x 16.26m. The wall is around 3.3m high and 0.80m thick, topped with thin concrete coping. It entered by double-width openings in the north and south walls topped with a reinforced concrete lintel. The interior walls of the substation are faced with ceramic tiles. The building measures 5.38m high, 9.08m by 12.8m. The north elevation of the substation a has a pair of tall double doors with overlights either side of a central long rectangular window. The south facing elevation has a tall double door with overlight towards its eastern end with a pair of central rectangular windows. The roof is of shallow hipped construction.

West Chopwell farmhouse predates the first edition OS, probably of comparable date to the original Chopwell Hall (c1721). Stone-built with a former gingang on the north side of the building. Much restored and converted into holiday accommodation.

At the dissolution of the monasteries, the lands of Chopwell Grange passed to the Swinburn family, the sitting tenants. The land was confiscated from the Swinburns in 1569. Much of the land was retained by the Crown but the remainder of the estate was granted to Sir Robert Constable, on whose death in 1595 the land was again seized by the crown and leased to Ambrose Dudley. Nine years later the estate was restored to the Constable family, who promptly renewed the lease to Dudley. By the middle of the C17 the estate passed to the Clavering family and in the C18 to the Cowper family. On the Clavering Estate plan of 1721 (NRO 390/M/142) a large house/tower is shown on the site of the later Chopwell Hall. Also shown on the Cowper Estate plan of 1793. Ordnance Survey first edition of 1850 shows the Hall as an L-shaped building within an irregular enclosure. By 1890 the small outbuilding at the west side of the farmyard had been rebuilt, and the west end of the main range had been altered. By 1940 the western end of the Hall had been demolished, and all of the complex by 1950. A photograph of Chopwell Hall (reproduced in Hordon and Wright 1995) shows an agricultural building with small, high-set windows, of rough-hewn stone with roughly faced and squared quoins and steeply pitched gabled roof. The authors date the construction of the Hall to 1615

Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition.

Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition.

Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition.

Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition.

Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition as Wesleyan. Shown as United Methodist on 1896 map. In use until 1965.

Shown on an Estate Plan of 1841 and Ordnance Survey first edition. There is a photograph of the Hall in 'Bygone Kenton by L. Palmer. Little seems to be known about the hall, but it was on the land of the Colliery Farm so may have been the colliery viewer's house. In 1861 a shipowner lived here, and in 1881 a barrister from Durham. In 1948 Newcastle City Council bought the hall and it now a private nursing home {1}. It is proposed to build an extension to Kenton Hall Residential Home, which will necessitate the demolition of parts of the old house. Ian Farmer Associates were appointed to write a desk based assessment and record the Hall. Frustratingly there is little information available on the Hall’s history or previous owners. The principal residence in Kenton was the Manor House. Kenton Hall may have originated as a farmhouse or was perhaps associated with the colliery. The Hall is shown on an estate plan of 1841 but its date of construction is not known. In 1855 a Captain Samuel Barrett is known to lived at Kenton Hall. Most of the old buildings of Kenton village, such as cottages on Kenton Lane, the school, Methodist chapel and the manor house, were demolished in the 1930s and 50s. Kenton Hall is the last vestige of the populous nineteenth century pit village which had developed from the medieval farming settlement. The Hall is constructed in sandstone with quoins. Its gabled slate roof has a plain finial at the western end. Inside there are two fireplaces at either end of the building and a central dog-leg staircase with slender turned balusters on ground floor level. The outshut is a later nineteenth century extension, brick with a decorative timber frame and pebble-dash render and a gabled roof with finial. The kitchen was added by 1897. This too is of snecked sandstone with quoins, gable trims with finials. The walls have been whitewashed. Some original sash windows survive. The two storey castellated porch was built between 1897 and 1919. The entrance has a four-centred arched doorhead. The east window displays a stained glass coat of arms and there is further stained glass inside.
The Archaeological Practice Ltd. carried out a further assessment and initial photographic record in 2008. Two further periods of photographic recording was undertaken in 2009 during the demolition of the building. The demolition of the hall revealed the substantial remains of a late 16th-17th century building. This older building included the remains of fireplaces, windows and doorways. These early features were hidden in the South Block of the building. These remains represented, until their demolition, the last known surviving structural remains of the medieval or early post-medieval village of Kenton. Footings of part of the 17th century building were recorded during an evaluation excavation in 2009. According to the List of Lands and Buildings occupied by the War Office (Northern Command), 1st June, 1918, at Woodhorn it says Kenton Hall a headquarters for digging and mining operations.

Possible site of West Kenton Colliery. There is a spoil heap shown here on Ordnance Survey first edition.The pit is shown with a wagonway on Lambert's map of 1807, but it is likely that West Kenton Colliery is of similar date to East Kenton, which was in operation in operation in 1770. Shown on Oliver's map of 1851 as "Clark's Winnings".