Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition map.

Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition map.

Built in the early 1860s, the house and its estate comprised a few acres close to Condercum Road and was occupied by Col. Oliver Selby and then of J.G. Hicks. Demolished after 1919 and built over by housing by 1939. The lodge to the south-east (HER 17277) remains standing.

First recorded in Bulmers Directory of 1857, Lower Condercum House was situated close to current day Condercum Road in grounds of circa 6 acres. At this point, the property was the residence of Mrs & Mrs Christian Burrell. The first Ordnance Survey map of Northumberland, published in 1864, makes no reference to this property and indicating that the house post-dates the survey work carried out by the Royal Engineers in the late 1850s. It remained in private ownership until 1932, the longest serving occupants being the Cochrane Carr family, owners of South Benwell Brick Works.

In 1934 Newcastle Council purchased the house and land for use as a "special school" which remained its use until
closure on 31 August 1988. Oakfield College was subsequently built on the site.

Originally called Benwell Little Park in Little Park Field. Shown on 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map. An 1860s mansion on the west side of Condercum Road. Two storey brick building with seven bedrooms, outbuildings and lodge. George Wightwick Rendel was the first tenant of Condercum House, by 1871 it was occupied by his brother Stuart Rendel and his family. In 1887 it was the home of Col. Dwyer, a director of the Armstrong Works, and in the 1880s of Thomas E. Crawhall. It was later occupied by William Cochrane Carr and by 1901 the shipowner J.F. Weidner. The estate was sold in 1934 and demolished in 1937 to be redeveloped for residential housing probably by Hadden and Hilman who developed Benwell Park Estate around the same time.

Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition map, named on second edition.

Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition map, named on second edition.

Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition map.

Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition map.

High Gowlands farmhouse, situated at the eastern edge of Benwell, is first recorded in 1829 when it was tenanted by William Daglish. By 1840, it changed hands and was occupied by Henry Nairn and comprised four fields circa 50 acres as detailed in the 1841 tithe map. In 1847, Henry Milvain of neighbouring North Elswick Hall purchased a narrow strip of land adjoining the eastern boundary of High Gowlands and in 1857, he purchased the entire property. The property was surveyed by the Royal Engineers in 1858 for the first Ordnance Survey Map of Northumberland, published in 1864, who recorded: “High Gowlands …........... about 8 chains NW of Benwell Grove …........ an ordinary farmhouse with offices yards & attached”.
High Gowlands Farm appears to have had a regular turnover of tenant farmers. In 1856 and 1861, it was leased to Richard Swan as the primary tenant, however he had been replaced by 1871 by a Mr Hawksby. The census of 1881 records Isaac Maughan as the primary tenant and confirms that the farmstead was 50 acres in size. The census of 1891 lists Edward Kane as the main tenant of High Gowlands. On the death of Henry Milvain in 1893, the four fields of the farm were offered for sale by auction, listed as two Lots. However, both Lots were withdrawn as (presumably) the best prices offered were not acceptable. The farm is depicted on the 2nd edition Ordnance Survey published in 1899, which was revised between 1894 and 1895.
The last depiction of High Gowlands farm is on the 1919 Ordnance Survey, which shows the field boundaries and the farm buildings still extant, however, it would seem to have been developed for residential housing in 1920s and 1930s.