12 almshouses, 1870 by R.J Johnson at the expense of Hugh Taylor for 6 inhabitants of Newburn, 3 of Earsdon and 3 of Shilbottle. Brick with ashlar-coped plinth, bands and dressings; graduated Lakeland slate roof with ornamental ridge tiles and stone gable copings. One storey and attics; 3 bays to each house. 6-panelled doors and overlights in chamfered elliptical-headed surrounds in outer bays and paired to intermediate houses; elliptical heads to 2 deeply-recessed sashes with lower glazing bars; ashlar string to door lintels; sill bands to ground floor and to paired sashes under gables of second house from each end. Shaped gables on returns, on rear of first bay and above central pair of doors, the latter containing inscribed stone in scrolled frame. Roof has hipped dormers with casement windows except in gables; tall corniced and banded brick chimneys. Enamel street name at left. Iron foot scrapers on stone steps to each pair of doors. {2}

Five terraces of houses, probably built by Throckley Coal Company to serve the Maria Pit and Throckley Firebrick and Clay Retort Works.

Farm with industrial interest. According to a valuer's report of 1875, Dewley Farm had a calf house used for turnips and a turnip house used for boiling. The farm was said to produce turnips of 'extra good quality', 'the best turnips in the north'. Turnips, carrots and parsnips, previously only grown in market and kitchen gardens, were introduced as field crops to feed the stabled livestock over the winter. By 1875 Dewley Farm had a dairy and a cow house of 10 stands and a calf pen. In 1797 Bailey and Culley reported that dairying was important near Newcastle, and the Newburn area in particular was being used for rearing young cattle. In 1885 Dewley Farm had been mechanised. There was a portable engine, threshing machine, French millstones, chaff cutting and corn cutting machines driven by steam power, and powerful steaming apparatus for cooking chaff, straw, meal, turnips and potatoes for feeding the livestock.

Farm with industrial interest. A plan of Throckley Manor dated 1805 shows 'Fell Butts Close' on the site of North Farm. By the enclosure award of 1830 the farm is reverse C shaped. In 2008 a building recording was undertaken by ARS Ltd. prior to renovation and conversion of the buildings into cottages. The farm had three phases of construction - 1805, 1849 and 1888. The barn structures were a mix of construction dates. The 19th century barns are of rough and smooth sandstone blocks in a greyish mortar with sandstone ashlar blocks.

Terrace of houses. These houses were built for the employees of Heddon Brickworks by Bates of Heddon Hall. They were sold to the Throckley Coal Company in 1895.

Terrace of houses.

The site of the present Anglo Great Lakes Factory, at Lemington Point, formed by the horseshoe bend in the river has a rather interesting industrial history. During World War 1 Lemington Point was known as "Canary Island" due to the existence of a munitions factory using a substance (cordite) with a bright yellow colouring. For many years after the war local people in the area still had traces of this colouring on their hair and skin. {1} The Point was an ideal location for a munitions factory, given its isolated site - it was physically separated from the rest of Lemington, and accessed only by a wooden bridge. The Anglo Great Lakes Graphite Factory closed in 1992. Workers there also tried not to get the dust onto their skin as graphite forms an almost permanent shiny grey layer.

Offices. Circa 1906 for Thermal Syndicate. Brick with ashlar dressings; graduated Lakeland slate roof. Free Baroque style. 2 storeys, 9 windows; gables over entrance in bays 4 and 5 and over 2 right end bays. Elliptical-headed surround to double door and overlight in prominent Ionic doorcase with paired banded pilasters, dentilled cornice and broken segmental pedimented hood with carved soffit. Wood mullioned and transomed windows, of 6 and 8 lights, on ground floor; cross windows on first floor. Those under gables with stone mullions and transoms; double keystones under right gable rise to tall segmental pediment containing roundel. Central gable over door has tall consoled pediment containing round-headed keyed window. Ball finials to gables. Hipped roof has ashlar-corniced brick ridge chimneys. The syndicate was formed in 1903 to develop the technique of fusing quartz for the manufacture of acid and heat resistant vessels. {1}

In about 1635, John Cosyn, draper of Newcastle, became a lease holder in Wallsend and built a large country home called Cosyn's Hall. This was known to have incorporated several Roman sculptured stones including an altar. The hall passed through the hands of the Lawson and Hewbank families before being sold to Robert Carr who renamed it Carville Hall. It can be seen in its own spacious grounds on the first edition Ordnance Survey map. On the same map, the line of Hadrian's Wall is shown as a strip of land about 20m wide dividing two fields. This strip was partly occupied by a drive leading to Carville Hall. A sketch by J Irwin Coates executed in 1879 shows the drive apparently on the line of the Wall with the ditch to the north. By the time of the second edition map the site had been covered with terraced housing. The drive to the hall had been incorporated into this development and renamed 'Roman Wall'. The terraced houses were built by the then owner of the Hall, Wigham Richardson, a philanthropist businessman from Newcastle. The Hall itself was demolished in 1898. {1} Mr. W. S. Corder of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle took photographs of the house prior to demolition [9]. Carville Hall is shown on 18th century maps (certainly on Robson’s plan of 1798, probably also on Thompson’s plan of 1745.

Up to fifty years before John Spencer set up his steelworks (HER 4231) there were two flour mills on the New Burn. There was formerly a water mill on the New Burn, about a quarter of a mile north from the village, which was called the High-mill. It was swept away by a flood in 1771 about the time that the Tyne Bridge fell. {1}