A number of stone houses fronting Summerhill. These include a terrace on the west hand side with small front gardens, and down the bank larger semi-detached and detached houses of some presence in spacious gardens. On the north side of the road, rear gardens ascend the steep slope of Summerhouse Hill.

Designated on 27th April 1990. The Conservation Area was designated to give recognition and protection to an exceptional combination of historic, architectural and ecological sites within the surviving elements of the former Stella Estate (HER 5245). The site of Stella Hall (built soon after 1600, HER 1694) is now a very ordinary modern housing estate and is excluded from the CA. The CA includes part of Newburn Battlefield 1640 (HER 1297). Later C19 stone terraces can be found at Summerhill and Path Head. Elsewhere there are C20 brick terraces. Image Hill and Summerhouse Hill offer commanding views of the Tyne valley. The majority of the CA is in agricultural use, mostly laid to pasture. At Image Hill and Path Head Meadow there are Sites of Nature Conservation Importance designated for their floral and herbal richness. Path Head Wood and Stella Wood are attractive but need managing. Path Head Wood is bisected by the line of the Towneley Main Waggonway (HER 3317). Path Head Farmstead (HER 1679) includes a C19 farmhouse, shelter sheds, a fold-yard, cottage, byre and barn and a corn mill and granary extension. The corn mill has been fully restored. There are a number of stone houses on Summerhill, a terrace with small front gardens and detached and semi-detached houses with larger gardens. Rear gardens ascend the steep slope of Summerhouse Hill. At the bottom of Summerhill there is a stone structure known as the Cowen Fountain (HER 7619). The summerhouse of 1750 still stands on the hill (HER 1699). On Stella Road, Stella Hall Cottage is a simple two-storey three-bay house of late C18 (HER 8336). It was the gardener's cottage of Stella Hall. At the rear part of the original estate wall survives. In Stella Wood walls and a bath house survive (HER 1698 and 7611). The Church of St. Mary and St. Thomas Aquinas (HER 1696) was built 1831-32. Attached to the north is a presbytery in a completely different style. There is a triangular area of brick terraced houses of early C20 date aligned at right angles to Stella Road. South of Stella Lane there is the Board Inn Public House (HER 7655) and two detached stone houses. Part of Image Hill is designated as a Site of Nature Conservation Importance (SNCI) because of the range of flowers which thrive on its acidic soils. Part of Path Head Meadow is also an SNCI due to the diverse range of plants, particularly herbs. Path Head Wood extends over 9 acres.

Built adjoining one another, these are handsome two-storey houses in coursed dressed stonework with four decorated dormers. The slate roofs have stone ridge tiles and water tabling. The double garage at the eastern end of the cottages is intrusive.

Victorian gate lodge. Two storeys in snecked dressed sandstone with slate roof and decorative bargeboards at first floor level. The original windows have been replaced.

Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition of c.1858. Former lodge to Ravensworth Park.

Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition of c.1858.

A hamlet based around a farm. A C19 lodge (HER 7425) and gateway (HER 7424) stand at the entrance to Coach Road which leads to the South Lodge of Ravensworth Park.

Two large fish ponds (lakes to be more accurate) with islands in the centre. There are two stone gate piers between the two ponds, which may be 18th century in date. The Gardener's Magazine of 1834 described the ornamental wildfowl which were kept on the ponds and housed in a rustic shelter.

A lozenge-shaped brick walled garden in a sadly deteriorated condition. The walled garden is shown on the tithe map of 1847. The Ordnance Survey first edition of 1861 shows its present oval form, divided by a heated wall running east-west, with fire-houses on the north side. An orchard was planted on the south side of the dividing wall with an avenue through it. An entrance from the arboretum on the west side of the walled garden led to a range of glasshouses. These were described by the Gardener's Magazine in 1834 'The forcing department consists of numerous pine-stoves, peach-houses &c; with a large double staged green-house, one for pelargoniums, the other for heaths'. In 1833 there was a terrible storm which damaged the vineries causing £500 worth of damage (Richardson's Table Book, v4, p 151). In 1877 the Journal of Horticulture & Cottage Gardener described the gardens at Ravensworth including the principal range of glasshouses which was semi-circular, almost 430 feet long and 18 feet wide. It was divided into 9 houses which included: a camellia house growing The Marchioness of Exeter and Hendersoni. a late peach house, with a Moorpark apricot on the back wall. Peaches included Voilette Hative and Royal George. A late vinery growing Lady Downe's, Black Alicante and Trebbiano. Another vinery which housed camellias and azaleas after flowering. A heated house for various plants including bananas and Stephanotis. A heated house for growing pineapples, Monserrats and Providence varieties. An early vinery for Black Hamburg and Muscat of Alexandria. A second peach house which also accommodated bouvardia and camellia. A second late vinery. 700 pots of strawberries (President and Garibaldi varieties). Ravensworth was renowned for pineapples which required much heat from hot pipes. The gardener in 1877, Mr Moult, competed with those grown at Lambton and Raby Castles. The north section of the walled garden was split into a pair of sub-rectangular beds with paths round the curved ends. Groups of orchard trees divided the path network. The kitchen garden contained a lean-to peach house, a span roofed stove (forcing house) and an Erica house for heathers. In 4 acres of cultivated ground, vegetables were grown including asparagus, celery, onions, peas, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, Savoy cabbage, coleworts (kale) and broccoli. Peaches, apricots and nectarines were grown on the walls. There were pear, apple and pear trees. The gardener's cottage was at the east end approached through two pairs of cedars framing the path.

Three houses built at the crossroads of the Butter Cross (HER 314) built in the 1950s in random sandstone reputed to have come from the demolished Nash House (HER 8183).