Originally known as Benwell West Park, the mansion house was likely constructed after 1859 in North East Leazes field. Farrier has identified the house as being occupied by James Shield, its builder, until at least 1879 from the Newcastle Courant and Kelly's Directory. The house, in the interim renamed Westacres, became a separate estate in 1888 when it was sold along with 7 acres and 4 perches of its surrounding land to Sir Benjamin Chapman Browne for £6000 by Percy Graham Buchanan Westmacott. According to Farrier, the house was built of red brick and stone and faced east with an ornamental garden on the western side. The grounds were well wooded with a lodge and stable block at the entrance.
Sir Benjamin C. Browne, the former Mayor of Newcastle, his wife: Lady Annie Browne and their extensive family were the only occupants of Westacres. Sir Benjamin, a solicitor and company director, died in March 1917. His widow lived on until 1929. A note in Northumberland Archives, identified by Farrier, contains a letter of complaint, dated 17 July 1898, sent to James Shield regarding damage caused by subsidence.
Following the death of Lady Annie Browne, the estate was sold to Harry Kindred, a local builder, who demolished the house and built the present West Acres Crescent estate of 65 houses built to order between 1930 and 1938. The former gardener’s cottage at the north west corner and the stone boundary wall in Fox and Hounds Lane of the former 19th century estate remain extant. The estate lodge at the former carriage drive entrance onto West Road across from the old Fox and Hounds Inn and was used by Kindred as a site office.

Recorded by the Royal Engineers as "a small hamlet on the north side of the Newcastle & Carlisle turnpike road, it consists of a public house and a few dwellinghouses" during surveying for the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map in 1858.

Pendower Cottages first appear on the 2nd edition Ordnance Survey for the area and appear to have been estate cottages for the Pendower Estate (HER 9823), created in 1864. Farrier suggests that they might have been constructed contemporary with the main house: Pendower, between 1864 and 1867. The estate was sold to Newcastle Council for development as a housing estate in 1919. The estate cottages were tenanted and special provision was made for Mrs Rachel McDougall, the elderly and longstanding occupant of one of the Cottages, to remain in situ at a rent of 1/- per year. The cottages became 61 and 63 Fox and Hounds Lane and remain extant. Sandstone gate posts associated with the estate are part of the entrance of property to the south.

Shown on 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map.

House, now school. 1865 by Alfred Waterhouse for Dr Thomas Hodgkin. Hammer-dressed snecked sandstone with ashlar plinth and dressings; dark slate roof with serrated ridge tiles and stone gable copings. Irregular plan. Tudor-Gothic style. 2 storeys and attics. Range around a courtyard. Extruded 2 storey porch at left of courtyard contains boarded door; loggia now glazed. Scattered fenestration - mullioned and transomed stair window, others sashes. Left projection has niches with low-relief coat of arms. Ashlar-coped ridge chimneys with buttresses and square yellow pots. Interior - geometric-patterned tiled entrance hall and dog-leg stair with pierced balustrade and grip handrail. Stair window glass has coats of arms of Middlesex, Newcastle and Cornwall, initials TH and LAH and date 1865. Gothic cast-iron radiator cover in hall. Hodgkin was a notable local historian.
Hodgkin and family lived in the house until 1893. It was sold to the Royal Victoria Asylum for the Blind in 1897 for £8381-5-0d. In 1905 a stone built recreation hall and school rooms were built at a cost of £6000. A sports field was also laid to the south of the house. In 1927 a new wing was built to the main house costing £8000. During the Second World War the house was requisitioned by the army. In 1978 the name changed to The Royal Victoria School to acknowledge that it now catered for more than the blind. The school closed in 1985. It lay empty for a while and was purchased by Gaur Developments Ltd and renamed Gaur House in 1990. In the last ten years the property has become Bluebird Hotel. The stable block and coach house were sold to become the Victoria Enterprise Centre in 1980s. The gymnasium was demolished in the early 1990s and replaced with a care home called the Allan Court Care Home.

The original congregation of the Wesleyan Chapel were recorded in the Newcastle Methodist Plan of 1805, whose members met, rent free, in the garret of Jobling’s Boathouse to the west of Paradise Village. In 1832, a stone built chapel was constructed to seat 40 people, however, vibrations caused by the construction of the Scotswood line by the Newcastle & Carlisle Railway Co in 1838 made that building unsafe.
After prolonged litigation, the N&CR company agreed to fund the reconstruction of a new chapel. This building used the material of the old on Paradise Row, which was completed in 1839. In 1871 a neighbouring area of land was leased for 70 years and a new brick chapel, for 250 people and costing £900, was built alongside the existing building. The foundation stone was laid on 24 October 1870 by Mrs. William Cochran Carr, who was then presented with a silver trowel.
The original chapel became a schoolroom. Both buildings closed in 1906 when the church trustees accepted an offer of a site on Atkinson Road when South Benwell was being developed for housing. The former church and the school were demolished and the congregation moved to the new Paradise Church (HER 14533).

Shown on 1st edition Ordnance Survey map {1}. Farm either incorporates or replaces the former colliery stables (HER 16446). The farm dates to the 1850s. The Post Office Directory of 1858 names Robert Gibson as a farmer at Low Benwell; Ward's 1890 Directory names Joseph Robinson as a farmer at South Benwell and Ward's 1898 Directory names James Armstrong as manager of South Benwell Farm. The farm was demolished in the late 19th century and was covered by terraced housing until the 1980s.

Shown on 1st edition Ordnance Survey map. Demolished early in C20. Stood near the corner of Atkinson Road and Scotswood Road. Occupied by coal-owner William Cochrane Carr, and then in the 1870s by the French family.

Shown on 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map.

Shown on 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map. Had a gable front with porch. Seated 250. Demolished.