Site of the house of the Bruce family and their 'commodious' [according to Mackenzie 1827] academy. John Bruce came to Newcastle in 1793 and set up a teaching practice. In 1802 he leased a large house in Percy Street. Two good schools had just closed in the Haymarket area. He founded his school in 1806. The Academy was a commercial school, preparing the boys for trade and business. John Bruce was not a man of means, he was self taught in French (useful in a trading port like Newcastle) and mathematics. In 1802 the school offered courses in French, mathematics, geography and writing. In 1815 Robert Stephenson attended the academy. In 1817 John Bruce toured schools in Edinburgh and introduced a similar examination system into his own school on his return. Bruce said the purpose of the exam was to 'rouse the emulation of the boys and to gratify the pardonable vanity of their parents'. In 1820 William Turner publicly praised Bruce's teaching. After his father's death, his son, John Collingwood Bruce ran the academy from 1834 to 1860, when he retired from management. Dr JC Bruce was educated at Glasgow University. He had planned to be a Presbyterian minister. He introduced science into the curriculum. Even in the 1860s the Academy was said to be the only school in Newcastle that taught science. In 1834 an 'Outline of Education' was published. This reported that younger boys learnt arithmetic to aid book-keeping and cartography. Older boys studing mathematics to aid mensuration, land surveying, navigation and mechanics. In 1836 the Schools Committee inspected the Academy and gave it a glowing reference saying it was like 'a university in miniature'. In 1868, John Hammond, assistant commissioner for Northumberland, reported to Lord Taunton's School's Inquiry Commission that the Bruce Academy was Newcastle's best secondary school. The school closed in 1881. The garden of the school was the former nonconformist burial ground (HER 5994). There is a stone plaque on the corner of Percy Street and St. Thomas Street to mark the location of the academy.

Shown on Ordnance Survey fourth edition of 1940.

Built from 1901 by John Bell. No. 5 was built as a shop but is now Barclays Bank.

Terraced houses known as Brook's Buildings (they were built by Mr Brooks of Denton). The front gardens were lost during 1937 road widening.

One of the first pair of semi-detached houses to be built in Westerhope. In existence by 1893. The village well was behind 'East'. Before 1901 Methodist services were held in this house, the Clarke family home. Now known as Nos. 401 and 403 Stamfordham Road.

Rogerson, Boyd and Beaumont Terraces surrounded 'The Square'. They were built on the site of Red Cow Farm (HER 6879). The terraces are named after directors of North Walbottle Coal Company and the Beaumont coal seam. Beaumont Terrace was built 1901-10 by the coal company. The coal seam was named after Huntington Beaumont who introduced bore rods for detecting coal seams to the north in the 17th century. The back yard walls of the terrace show the former location of the earth closets and coalhouses.

In 1890 a group of men formed the Northern Allotment Society. Their aim was 'to further the growth of fruit and flowers and cultivation of smallholdings with objects both educational and practical'. The society leased land to create the Nuns Moor Allotment Gardens in 1890. They then purchased part of Red Cow Farm from the Montagu family of Denton Hall. The land was to be shared out in lots so that working men could build dwellings and smallholdings. In 1895/6 the Red Cow Estate was named Westerhope because they 'had come west with hope to create a new community away from Newcastle's crowds'. Until the 1950s Westerhope village remained isolated in the middle of agricultural land. Joseph Wakinshaw was the estate founder and initiator of the Society. He lived at Runnymede until his death in 1923. The first streets were Stamfordham Road, North Avenue, West Avenue (Clarity Avenue) and Highfield Road. Joseph Wakinshaw's gardener, George Robson, lived in Ellergill Cottage in North Avenue, dated 1897 above the bay window. Belmont Cottages were built from 1901. The Methodist chapel was built in 1901 (the present church was built in 1974). The village schools were built on Hillhead Road in 1907. Westerhope store, built 1908, was a branch of the Throckley Co-operative Society. Montague Pit built James and Thomas Streets. North Walbottle Coal Company built Beaumont, Boyd and Rogerson Terraces between 1901 and 1910. The Picture Palace cinema (now a bingo hall) was built in 1912. More streets (such as Chatsworth Gardens were built in the 1930s). Westerhope did not have a pub until 1938 due to a covenant preventing the building of an ale house. The house of Joseph Wakinshaw, Runnymede, became a pub in 1938. A new Runnymede pub was built to the east of the house in 1964. This has since been demolished and replaced by Aldi supermarket. Joseph Wakinshaw was later responsible for Fenham and Darras Hall estates.

Subterranean reservoirs built 1902-1904 in a former quarry (HER 4167) for Newcastle and Gateshead Water Company. Impressive brick structure with vaulted roof. Never used. They were demolished in 1967-8 and the existing offices of the Newcastle and Gateshead Water Company (HER 9791) were built on the site.

Former bridge toll house by the UC (was A189), in parish of GATESHEAD (GATESHEAD District), Old Tollhouse, Redheugh Bridge, on old approach road, now a cul-de-sac west. Bridge built 1871. Design: rectangular, prominent porch, two storeys

Milestone by the A167, in parish of BIRTLEY, Durham Road, opposite fire station, in pavement by brick wall, on east side of road. Milestone Society Survey. Carved stone post, erected by an unknown authority in the 19th century. Inscription reads; (G / 5 / ) : : (D / 7 / ). 37cm high.