Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition of 1858 within brickfield (HER 2795).

Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition of 1858.

Shown on Ordnance Survey third edition of 1919.

1896 by J W Johnson. Plain brick building, later hall added to the east. Shown on Ordnance Survey third edition of 1919.

Shown on Ordnance Survey third edition of 1919. The Sunderland Pottery Company traded between 1913 and 1957. Formed by Alderman W Walker, Digby Nelson, Frederick Nelson, H.E. Pitt and A.P Pitt in 1913. Initially it produced a range of brown wares from local clay, but later specialised in fireproof cooking ware, ornamental ware and mixing bowls. The trade name of the firm was 'Sundrex'. In 1927 the company filed for voluntary liquidation but was reconstructed by Messrs D and J Crombie under the name Wearside Pottery Company. Electrically powered machinery was installed the following year and the firm expanded its repertoire and its premises. In 1941 the Wearside Pottery became the last potworks in Sunderland after the closure of Snowdon and Co's Bridge End Pottery. By the 1950s the company had restricted its range of products to yellow wares for kitchen use, and specialised in manufacturing lined mixing bowls. The potworks closed in February 1957 in the wake of the Clean Air Act of 1956 and relocated to a new site in Seaham which was open until 1984. The closure signalled the end of Sunderland's long tradition of pottery manufacturing and saw the beginning of the final years of the coal fired bottle kiln. The equipment from Millfield was sold by auction and the buildings cleared to allow expansion of the adjacent glassworks. An archaeological excavation in 2011 revealed the foundations of the principal manufacturing areas, including the base of a coal-fired bottle kiln. The evidence revealed that the initial raw processing of the clay was carried out in the southern part of the potworks. The potting shop incorporated a drying room at its northern end. A coal-fired updraught bottle kiln lay adjacent to the potting shop. The Wearside Pottery was an entirely 20th century factory, however, it appears to have been of a traditional design. With the exception of the concrete foundation, the excavated bottle kiln was a design typical of 19th century examples.

Shown on Ordnance Survey third edition of 1919. In 1915 at least part of the works was occupied by H.A. Davies Ltd. By 1941 a stone works and the Millfield Joinery Works are present in this site.

Shown on Ordnance Survey third edition of 1919.

Shown on Ordnance Survey third edition of 1919.

Shown on Ordnance Survey third edition of 1919. Replaces an earlier chapel and school (HER 13182 and 13183). Closed 1971, congregation to Pallion Methodist Church. Old photograph (www.durham-images.org) shows brick Georgian-style three-bay gable-fronted chapel with ashlar cornice and inscription ‘WESLEY CHAPEL’ with oculus and segmental arch in gable above. Is this the earlier chapel?

Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition of 1858.