The low watermill was situated near the bridge and was occupied by William Hedley. {1} Up to fifty years before John Spencer set up his steelworks (HER 4231) there were two flour mills on the New Burn. The site of Spencer's Mill was originally the low mill.

A stone built former farm dwelling dating possibly from c.1850, although with a number of later alterations. The core of the house is shown on the First Edition Ordnance Survey of c.1855 and the house with its extension to the east is shown on the Second Edition Map of 1898. The house is single-storey, although rooflights suggest the use of the loft space. The construction is of sandstone and it has been ribbon pointed. The openings on the front (south) elevation and west gable have stone sills and lintels which show the pecked and margined pattern typical of Northumbrian vernacular buildings of the period. The stone work is not coursed. To the rear the building has been extended. Stonework on the west elevation suggests that a smaller earlier extension has been removed and replaced by a relatively modern brick kitchen extension which has been rendered. Cast iron rainwater goods survive at various points but both timber and new plastic guttering have also been used. The roof has been fully recovered in concrete roof tiles. The three chimney stacks are of brick. Extending eastwards and attached to the house is a lower and narrower single storey range, rubble built and ribbon pointed. Cartographic evidence suggests this was added in the second half of the C19. The range has rooflights and an opening on its east gable at loft level suggesting possible use as a granary or food store above a byre or stable (internal inspection would clarify this). The east end of this range has a dormer inset into the roof possibly to give working space in the loft area related to the above opening. The range has two window openings on the south elevation and two entrances on the north elevation. Of the windows one has been partially blocked and one is of twelve fixed panes. In the garden area immediately to the west of the building are the remains of low walls. To the front are sandstone garden walls. The Clousden Hill area holds a notable position in British Social History as the site of one of the best known and possibly earliest experiments in communal living. In the period from c.1894 to 1898 an anarchist communist colony based at "Clousden Hill Farm" farmed 20 acres of land with revolutionary ideas of both communal living and agriculture. The instigator of the commune was Frank Kapper, an anarchist tailor from Bohemia and the people who formed the colony were drawn from many parts of Britain and Europe, and in one case from South America. Its fame spread through a number of articles in foreign newspapers. Their ideas were based principally on those of Prince Peter Kropotkin, a Russian anarchist based in Britain. The chosen location of Tyneside was based on Kropotkin's idea that intensive agriculture under glass could be carried out in coal mining areas where coal could be bought cheaply. Kropotkin himself was asked to involve himself in the setting up of the commune but declined to take the position of Commune Treasurer, his letter about this being printed in the local press. He did however support the colony and visited it during its existence. Other leading anarchist and communist figures of the day visited the site, notably Kampffmeyer and Tom Mann. As such it was one of the most remarkable ventures in social history in this country in the late C19, predating many of the more famous developments in the growth of anarchism and communism. The commune was closely linked with the Co-operative movement of the area, which formed the major market for the flowers and produce grown in the fields and greenhouses of the colony. The general opinion is that the principal base of the commune was in a property close to lamb or Ord farmhouse (now known as Earlington House). However there is now strong reason to believe that the Ord Farmhouse was actually part of the communal arrangement. It is known that by 1897 the commune had grown in number to approximately two dozen members and had spilled over into other cottages in the village. Sketches from the 'Illustrated London News' of January 8th 1898 include a drawing entitled "Sketches at Clousden Hill Farm - the Farm House", which shows the building now known as Lamb or Ord Farmhouse. The sketches also show members of the commune and a pond. A fish pond is marked immediately to the rear of the building. It seems therefore that the building was occupied by at least part of the commune in early 1898. {1} Also known as Lamb or Ord Farmhouse.

Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition as farm cottages. The farm was tenanted by the Rowell family, who were coal owners as well as farmers. Recorded in 1994 {1}. The new Village Farm development was built here in 1998. The new houses largely respect the layout of the farm buildings.

This was the principal house of Scotswood in the early C19, owned by the Ord family and occupied by the tenant of the paper mill next to the railway bridge. The house is shown on Ordnance Survey maps of 1841, 1858 and 1896. The latter map also shows the gardens. Scotswood House was described as "on an eminence adorned with a neat garden and occupied by Mr Nathaniel Grace the tenant of Scotswood Paper Mill." {1}

The recent (1987) clearance of buildings from Grady's Yard at the junction of Scotswood Road and Denton Road revealed more of the railway embankment below the line of the former Scotswood, Newburn and Wylam Railway and two arched entrances within the embankment. These are approximately 40m west of the west entrance to the Scotswood Tunnel. The larger of the tunnels carried a railway under the main line whilst the smaller one provided pedestrian access. They were blocked off by landfill. Their northerly entrances are no longer traceable as a result of alterations in the topography of the land in the area. The stonework of the entrances was in good condition. These features probably date to 1871-75 when this section of the Scotswood, Newburn and Wylam Railway was laid out. Grady's Yard was previously Fireclay Works. Much clay was brought to the works from the drifts within the valley of the Denton Burn. The tunnels therefore formed an important link to the Fireclay Works and should be seen as a vestige of this once important industry. {1}

There was a fair sized jetty on the riverside, and a boatyard known as Olivers Shipyard. The paddle boat "Jabez Bunting" named after the Methodist minister, was built here for Joblings of Bells Close. There was a rather curious clause in the building contract which stated that the vessel must not be worked on Sundays. This shipyard was in addition to that on the site of the present Stella North Power Station where 2 vessels of about 90 tons were built in the 1860s - the "Lemington Antelope" and the "Harry Kells". {1}

Early 19th century plan of the Woolsington Estate (NRO 1219) shows 'West Bricks Nook', 'East Bricks Nook' and 'Brick Kiln Field'. This no doubt reflects the location of brick production, perhaps sited for the production of bricks for Woolsington Hall or its ranges. The lack of any indication of activity on the 1727 survey of Woolsington by John Robertson suggests the kiln was active after this period.

Anderson Place was Newcastle's most spectacular house, the largest, it is said, in the country within a city wall. Originally the land belonged to the church but became the property of the merchant Robert Anderson in 1580. Robert Anderson built the "Newe House" on the site of the old monastery of the Grey Friars. In 1646 Charles I was kept prisoner here. The house was purchased in 1675 by Sir William Blackett, MP for Newcastle and eventual owner of Wallington in Northumberland. Enriched through shipping, coal and lead, he added the vast brick-built wings to the house with modern sash windows. It was sold in 1782 to a builder, George Anderson, whose son named it Anderson Place. The house stood just off Pilgrim Street, approximately on the site of the present Lloyds Bank, in a 13 acre estate. The house was demolished in 1834 when Richard Grainger rebuilt the city centre. Dated C16th.

In 1820, Newgate gaol was deemed "as being out of repair, and inconvenient, insufficient and insecure". An application was made to Parliament for building a new Gaol and a new House of Correction. The architect was John Dobson - his most important civic enterprise. The ceremony of laying the foundation stone took place on 4th June 1823. Cost just over £35,000. The gaol contained an elliptical building for the residence of the keepers in order that they could inspect unseen the radiating wings of the prison. The building was enclosed by a thick wall, 25 feet tall. The entrance was a strong tower on the west side, in which was an arched gateway 14 feet high. Above the outer entrance, was a stone on to which the town's coat of arms was to be inscribed. Two gates secured the entrance with a porter's lodge in between them. The viewing vestibule was ascended by steps in the centre tower. On the ground floor there was a coal cellar, wash house and storeroom. There was a committee room and living quarters and office for the governor, apartments for the prison matron and keeper of the house of correction. The gaol also had a chapel. The gaol closed in 1925 and was demolished.
Labelled 'New Gaol' on Wood's map of 1827, 'New Prison - Tread Mill and Male Debtors' on Thomas Oliver's map of 1830, 'The Gaol' on OS first edition of 1879 and 'Her Majesty's Prison' on OS second edition 1898 onwards.
Brodie, Croom and O'Davies (2002) - Newcastle was a detached radial prison, a design which was employed for most large-scale prisons built between 1800 and 1835. It consisted of a number of wings (Newcastle's had 6) arranged around a central building which contained the governor's accommodation, the committee room and the chapel. The hub was polygonal or circular (Newcastle's was elliptical) in plan to allow the supervision of the yards around the house. Each wing contained dayrooms and workrooms on the ground floor with sleeping cells above. They were attached to the central block by iron walkways that allowed direct access from the sleeping cells to the chapel. The wings normally held two classes of inmate separated by a spine wall. The 'treadmill' labelled on Oliver's map of 1830 refers to a treadwheel. Sir William Cubitt had patented a new type of treadwheel in 1818, on which prison inmates walked around the exterior of a cylinder on a series of steps. By 1824 there were at least 75 wheels in 49 prisons. The treadwheels were used to create power to grind floor, pump water and to create unproductive labour. Some wheels were purely punitive. The 1823 Gaol Act specified that inmates sentenced to hard labour had to work a maximum of 10 hours a day. A treadwheel survives in the former gaol at Beaumaris in Wales. Further wings were added at Newcastle Gaol during the 1850s and early 1860s and another in 1871.

Earthworks relating to medieval ridge and furrow, possible house platforms and field divisions. Lamesley is one of the best surviving examples of a medieval landscape in Tyne and Wear.