Site of Park House. Demolished in 1996. Was listed grade 2. Built in 1730 by James Gibbs for Henry Ellison. Fine red brick mansion in Flemish bond with stone dressings. Three storeys, seven bays. The interior had long been gutted apart from two brick passage arches. The building had been in industrial use, forming part of Clarke Chapman's factory. Sir Charles Parsons developed the design of the first steam turbine in secret in this building. The outside walls of Gateshead Park House were still standing in 1973. The site was later part of the Victoria Engineering Works (in 1882 the company was called Clarke, Chapman and Gurney). In 1884 Mr Gurney resigned. In the same year Charles Algernon Parsons bought himself a junior partnership in the firm. Gateshead Park House had just been purchased by the company for the development of electricity. Parsons took over Clarke Chapman's newly organised electrical department. The company now became Clarke, Chapman, Parsons & Company. On April 23rd 1884 Parsons took out his first patent numbers - 6734 and 6735 - covering the design of steam turbo-dynamos. On November 10th 1891 Park House was gutted by fire. The fine staircase shown in W.H. Knowles' "Vestiges of Newcastle and Gateshead", along with the oak panelling, were destroyed. Park House is shown on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map as an isolated stately home within its own grounds. By the second edition it has been incorporated within the Sunbeam Lamp Works (HER 4360) which lay just north of the main Victoria Engineering Works buildings.

The name Temple Street marks the presence of a synagogue shown on Oliver's plan of 1838 lying on the junction of Peel Lane and Temple Street. Although there is now no surviving evidence for this synagogue, a Jewish graveyard still lies across Peel Lane to the rear of the present Newcastle Lighting Centre. In 1835, Newcastle's Jewish community had purchased a 250 square yards plot of land north of Thornton Street for use as a burial ground. Within 30 years however this area had been densely developed and the plot was allocated for a new theatre. Despite appeals, the Jewish community lost their battle for their cemetery. They were promised however that the 55 square yards which had already been used would be untouched by development, hence the small site which survives today. Only five grave stones are left. The Hebrew inscriptions are eroded and only one is legible - it commemorates Matilda Gaskell who died in 1851. Building plans in Tyne and Wear Archives show a proposed walkway across the Jewish cemetery. The proposals were approved and passed by the Town Improvement Committee on 31st August 1892. LOCAL LIST

The name Temple Street marks the presence of a synagogue shown on Oliver's plan of 1838 lying on the junction of Peel Lane and Temple Street. It had a plaque on it which read "JEWS SYNAGOGUE: ERECTED SEPT XIX: VD XC VIII" (ie 1838). Although there is now no surviving evidence for this synagogue, as it was demolished in the 1920s, the Jewish graveyard still lies across Peel Lane to the rear of the present Newcastle Lighting Centre (see HER 5093) {1}. A marriage certificate of 1877 and deeds from 1855-1892 relating to this synagogue survive in Tyne and Wear Archives (C/NC56) {2}. In 1908 the building was known as Temple Street Methodist Mission. The plaque is placed outside the Gosforth Synagogue.

Ridge and furrow earthworks survived [in 1998] on either side of the A184. The site is of botanical importance for its ancient wet grassland (itseld evidence for an absence of recent ploughing). The area north of the road (centred on NZ 3392 6097) is bounded to the north by a lake. Ridge and furrow survives to the west of a relict field boundary. The ridges are c.7 metres wide, run north-suth, there are no reversed S curves or headlands, but no original ends survive. The features appear typical of Medieval to 18th century broad rigg. The area to the south of the road (centred on NZ 3413 6084) is very wet, with standing water in furrows at time of visit in 1998. The western part forms a shallow pond, presumably formed either by recent excavation or by mining subsidence. Within the eastern part, faint ridge and furrow is visible. The ridges run east-west and are c.2.6 metres across. They are at least partly bounded to the west by a faint bank. No reversed S curves or headlands are visible. The width of the ridges is abnormally narrow for broad rigg, and the system does not have the rigid straightness and sharpness typical of late 18th century-19th century narrow rigg. However the width is also abnormally wide for cord rigg. Examination of aerial photographs taken before recent development of the area might allow the contextand date of the features to be established.

Disused well found to north west of Backworth Hall. Reported to County Archaeologist by North Tyneside Council. Not inspected so date and condition not known. It measures 1 metres in diameter and is now infilled. Hall dates to 18th century so well assumed to be of similar date.

Township boundary stone between Ryhope and Tunstall. The stone is plain and unremarkable in itself, but is of unknown date, so could be significant.

Hollinside Farm was part of the Gibside Estate when Gibside was occupied by the Dowager Countess. It dates to 1848 and the architect was J.E. Watson. It is of classical detail. 2 storeys, of ashlar, laid in regular courses with rusticated quoins and architraves. Stone frieze and cornice to the eaves. Square on plan, with hipped slate roof. Sash windows with flat stone lintels and no glazing bars. The door is framed by a Tuscan dooracse. A window above. The eaves cornice is supported by four large modillions over this recess. To the south west of the house are regular ranges of single storey rubble farm buildings with slate roofs..

Farmstead including a two storey barn, which has a granary in the upper floor. The farm buildings appear to derive from the mid 19th century. Either a number of buildings have been lost or the farm has always been a small-scale dairy based enterprise. Prior to the present owners, the farm was owned by the National Coal Board, from which time a small yellow brick boiler house survives. None of the surviving earlier buildings have any significant architectural merit or any of the simple but pleasant detailing found on many agricultural buildings of the period. Although both quoins and lintels on the barn and farmhouse are of the same style - pecked stone with a margin. The stonework of the barn is otherwise of random stone and the roof is slate. The rear elevation has one opening at the upper level and two arched entrances into the lower floor. Here the use of a huge single stone to form the central column of the double arch gives an earlier look to this typical 19th century feature. The use of an odd undressed quoin stone also suggests that stone was used from an earlier building. Documentary evidence confirms that the farm was based upon the farmhouse and barn/granary. The single storey range which projects from the farmhouse is a later addition. The farm is not mentioned in Parson and White's directory of 1828 but is in Whellan's Gazeteer of 1856. The farm, at this time, is unusually in the ownership of a woman, further suggesting that this was a small family farm. The map evidence is unclear - Hobson's map of Durham of 1840 does not name the site but buildings appear to be marked on or near it. This type of small farm was once common but was overtaken by the developed farms of the mid 19th century. Brunskill notes in his "Traditional Farm Buildings of Britain" that a "family farm need consist of only two buildings" - a farmhouse and a barn with yard and midden in between. The large central column stone may be explained by a structural problem with this type of building - a structural problem does appear near the western end of the north-eastern elevation of the barn.

A farmstead of mid 19th century. The stonework and architectural detail is unexceptional and the quality of the group does not merit listed status. However, there are aspects of the site which mark it as a good survival of this period of farm development. The building plan follows the standard layout for a planned farm of this period. The principle elements are - the E shaped courtyard with 2 storey barn on an east-west axis with projecting single storey ranges enclosing two south facing yards. A threshing barn and attached gin-gan project north from the 2 storey barn. Freestanding single storey cartshed, stables and workshop with arched entrances. The level of survival of the buildings is high, with the exception of the western single storey range, in which the original stone wall of the inner face has been replaced by brick. Some bricking up of arched entrances has taken place and some widening and heightening of doorways has been undertaken to provide large entrances for machinery. This has led to the intrusion of modern lintels in places. Generally however, the buildings show little alterations from their original form. The roofs have probably been replaced over time but are universally covered with slate. The gin-gan is in-situ, with brick infill between the surviving stone supporting columns. The building is, however, devoid of all machinery. The interior of the buildings have, in general, few features but retain some characteristics of their original designed use. The east-west axis barn contains an upper granary.

The buildings do not represent one significant period of development, but instead date from a number of periods. Of the once working farm, two principle buildings have been lost - the gin-gang and a barn. The earliest and most interesting structure is (or was) the cart shed, which is probably late 18th century in origin. The main elevation is of 18th century brickwork with a row of four arched entrances at ground level. The building has been raised, possibly in the earlier part of this century, to create a two storey building, the upper floor housing a granary. The two original gable walls survive within the newer brickwork. The rear wall of the cart shed is in stone. As there is no evidence of heightening in this wall, it can be assumed that this is a rebuild. The cart shed forms part of a single courtyard layout. Forming one side of the yard is a large19th century stone built threshing barn. The gin-gang has been removed from the rear elevation of this barn. The barn is of random stone but with elements of earlier brick in the south gable, suggesting re-use of material from an earlier construction. Internally the barn has lost its threshing machinery and upper flooring. The rest of the site comprises the farmhouse (much adapted and altered), a single storey barn, in poor condition, projecting from the rear elevation of the cart shed, the site of a former barn or steading removed from the north of the site, the site of the gin-gang and an L-shaped building which joins the cart shed to the house. This last is of crude stonework but would appear from OS maps to have been in position by the mid C19. The site is believed to be early 18th century in origin, but none of the present buildings date from this time (with the possible exception of parts of the much altered house). The buildings do not have the homogeneity to be seen as a "group". Individually they are not architecturally or historically significant with the exception of the cart shed. On the other hand, the farmstead survives as one of a collection of basically 19th century building groups with 18th century origins in this area. At this time farms developed away from what had been the medieval villages and developed on a large scale producing crops and animal/dairy products from the expanding city. Other surviving examples are at Whorlton Hall, Whorlton Grange and Bullock Steads. Whilst not of the same quality as any of these examples, Peck's House is one of the earlier developments. It is, despite its lack of quality, part of this pattern of agricultural development {1}. Richard Peck was born in the late 1600s. He married Hannah Potts of Ponteland in 1717. He was a mining engineer/coal viewer who rose to the position of wealthy lessee of Newbiggin Colliery in 1738. Together with his son Joseph, he is famous in mining circles for an excellent series of plans showing sites of old pit workings in the Tyne area. He had Peck's Houses built around the time of his marriage in 1717. He left his property in 'Newbiggin' to his son Joseph Peck. The latter was succeeded by William Peck, probably his son, whose daughter Hannah Peck died sometime before 1817. In 1845 the new landowner Matthew Bell Esq. Rented out the property and land of 276.25 acres to Matthew Wilkinson. Dues paid for this land went to the vicar of Newburn and the Bishop of Carlisle. William Rylg resided at Peck's House from 1858 {2}.
NB aerial photos from Google Earth Pro indicate that all the farm buildings except the house in the SW corner of the complex were demolished c2005, and replaced with new buildings with a similar layout but larger footprint.