Designated November 1974.

Designated in November 1974. The boundary is based on the medieval village and the open space and development pattern around it. Killingworth village (HER 800) was held by the barony of Roger de Merlay III in 1242. During the 17th century the area held Newcastle Races on Killingworth Moor south of the village. The moor was enclosed in 1793 by the construction of West Lane, Great Lime Road and Killingworth Road. By the mid 1700s the village consisted of a street of cottages and farms. Killingworth House (HER 11364) was built in 1732 and Killingworth Hall (HER 7757) was rebuilt in 1765, both to designs by Lancelot Coxon. In 1865 was separated from Longbenton to become a distinct ecclesiastical parish. St. John the Evangelist Church (HER 7260) was consecrated in 1869. The area surrounding the village was an important industrial area with collieries, quarries, a clay pit, brick and tile works. Croft View is a Victorian terrace. Hillside is a 1930s street of semi-detached houses. Stoneycroft East and West and The Spinney are late C20 cul-de-sacs. The largest surviving houses in Killingworth are Killingworth Hall, North Farm House (HER 7263) and Killingworth Cottage (HER 7265). Mill House has retained within it an old gin-gang. The Old Stables is another refurbished farm building (HER 11369). The Gate House and The Tower were built in 1925. Killingworth Park was formed in 1976. It has a grand main entrance with stone wall and ornate railings. The southern boundary is an old stone wall. There is a gravel path circling areas of grass and the western side has dense tree coverage and large open areas (and is a Site of Local Conservation Interest). There are a significant number of mature native trees in the streets, gardens and open spaces (sycamore, ash, horse chestnut etc) and over 150 trees are formally protected with Tree Preservation Orders. There is a wood south of Gate House and The Tower which fell out of agricultural use in the 1960s. This is part of a Wildlife Corridor and is a Site of Local Conservation Interest.

Designated on 1st November 1974. The Conservation Area incorporates not only the island but the surrounding rocky landscape and the mainland area around it. Anecdotally it is believed that the Romans had a beacon on the island but there is no substantive evidence for this. In the medieval period the monks of Tynemouth Priory had a chapel to St. Helen on the island (HER 773) with a light and bell to warn ships. St. Mary's Island is sometimes known as The Bates, Bates Island, Bateshill, Hartley Bates or Baits Island. Thomas Bates was a previous owner and a surveyor of Northumberland under Elizabeth I. The promontory on the mainland adjoining the causeway is called Curry's Point (HER 7695). On September 4th 1739 Michael Curry, a glass worker from Seaton Sluice, was hanged for murdering Robert Shevill, the landlord of the Three Horseshoes Inn at Hartley. Afterwards his body was suspended from a gibbet near St. Mary's Island within sight of his crime. In 1855 Georage Ewan built the cottages on the island, with the help of Lord Hastings of Delaval (HER 1796). The roofs were thatched with 'bents' (grass gathered from the headlands). In 1862 he converted the cottages into an inn called the Square and Compass. In 1894 an argument started when Joseph Patterson of Hartley East Farm let a field on the mainland to the army for use as a rifle range (HER 1054). Visitors to the island and inn were now in danger from bullets. Ewan was evicted by Lord Hastings in 1895. Work started on St. Mary's Lighthouse (HER 1037) in 1896 after several large ships were wrecked on the rocks, including the 'Gothenburg City'. The 126 feet lighthouse was finished in 1898 and painted in September 1900. The Keepers' Houses (HER 9428) were finished in February 1899. When the lighthouse was being built, human remains (HER 774) were found indicating that the medieval chapel had an associated burial ground. There was no man-made causeway to the island until 1929. The present concrete causeway was built in 1965/6. The concrete pillar (HER 1987) off the east coast of the island was built in 1914 as a rangefinder for coastal defence guns at Tynemouth Priory. On the western side of the island there is a pillbox (HER 1791). The bird hide beside the lighthouse was originally a degaussing station built in 1959. The station demagnetised ships to protect them from mines laid during the war. The small yet important nature reserve, established in 1997 to the south of the main carpark, comprises rockpools, a beach, freshwater ponds and clifftop grassland and provides habitats for a rich variety of marine life, seabirds and waders. The CA contains the Tynemouth to Seaton Sluice SSSI (Site of Special Scientific Interest) which provides one of the best exposures of Coal Measures strata in Great Britain. It also contains the Northumberland Coast SSSI, designated for its role as an internationally important habitat for shoreline species, such as Little Tern, Turnstone and Purple Sandpiper. St. Mary's Island and the surrounding shoreline are designated as a Site of Nature Conservation Importance (SNCI) which provides a variety of habitats for wildlife.

Designated in 1995. The Conservation Area lies to the east of Wallsend town centre and immediately south of Church Bank. It occupies a prominent site at the top of a steep slope overlooking Wallsend Burn close to the point where it flows under Willington Bridge and Willington Viaduct on its way to the River Tyne. The CA includes St. Peter's Church (HER 7357) of 1809, the rectory of 1852 (HER 11299) and the cemtery (HER 11356). The CA was designated too late to save the Church School and Middle School and to prevent the construction of St. Peter's Court residential home in their place. The churchyard includes listed stocks (HER 7358), a milepost (HER 7359), sandstone boundary walls and gate piers. The south and east boundaries are delineated by a few late 19th century terraces of modest houses.

Designated in 1975. Camp Terrace Conservation Area comprises some of the earliest parts of North Shields' residential suburbs with around 245 dwellings. The boundary is based on some of the earliest residential streets to the north of the Georgian new town. Brick is the main building material, but local sandstones are used for early boundary walls. The are long late C19 and early C20 terraces to the north, west and south. Grosvenor Place, Frank Place, Spring Terrace and Lovaine Terrace are of special interest. Christ Church is listed grade 2. There are allotments at Cleveland Terrace. There are late C20 flats and terraces at Haswell Gardens on the site of Tynemouth Union Workhouse, later Preston Hospital. Cooper's map of 1831 shows Camp Terrace isolated north of the town. This isolated terrace was not designed for industrial or agricultural workers and is similar to urban townhouses. Nos. 1-4 Camp Terrace are said to have been built at the end of the Napoleonic Wars for officers of tented military camps at South Preston. There are broadly three zones within the CA - the east zone includes the earliest houses on Fenwick Terrace and stub terraces off it. The south zone was the next phase of development, south of Cleveland Road, with higher density terraces. The north zone, north of Cleveland Road are mainly semi-detached houses. There are a few Tyneside flats in the CA (Waterloo Place west end and Cleveland Road). Large houses on Cleveland Road and Alma Place have been converted to flats. There are several business uses - a bookshop on Fenwick Terrace, the former training centre on Cleveland Road, plus dental surgeries, doctor's surgeries and a funeral directors. Nos. 1-4 Camp Terrace are the oldest houses in the CA (c.1810, HER 7280). Nos. 5-6 are later (HER 7282). Nos. 13-18 are much smaller in scale. Camp Terrace is gated. There are stone boundary walls to the rear. The end gable of No. 1 Camp Terrace has an oval window (oeil-de-beouf). Nos. 1-6 Alma Place and Nos. 1-9 Cleveland Road are large terraces with half-sunken basements, requiring steps to the front door, which increases their grandeur. Nos. 1-7 Waterloo Place are handed pairs (each house is a mirror plan of the next). The buildings are all brick. Original roofs are slate. Nos. 12-14 Cleveland Road are rendered (1920s rural cottage revival style). Bay windows have hung tiles.

Designated in 1975. The Conservation Area is part of North Shields, immediately east of the modern town centre. It is a mixed commercial and residential quarter, including around 55 businesses and 170 dwellings. The CA boundary is based on the best surviving elements of the Georgian 'new town'. John Rook's map of 1789 is instructive in that it is drawn half-way through the new town's development. The Earl of Carlisle owned much of the land. He sold his plots to John Wright in 1796, who planned an ambitious townscape that included a grand processional way (which would be named Howard Street, after the Earl's family name) terminating in an elegant Georgian square (Northumberland Square). The rest of the development around the square was governed by other land owners and became a grid of fairly small units. The new town was developed with rows of two storey brick terraced housing with stone doorways of Tuscan pilasters. Northumberland Place was grander, built in polished ashlar with quoins. Public buildings and banks were added into the residential area. North Shields 'new town' is similar in age to Newcastle's Grainger Town, and although its buildings pre-date Grainger Town by over 50 years, the overall development is not as grand, dramatic or imaginative. North Shields quickly grew larger and more important than Tynemouth. North Shields became the economic centre and from 1849 the council of the new Borough of Tynemouth met at John Dobson's town hall (HER 4854) of 1844 on the corner of Howard Street. By 1865 the new town was almost finished. There were several important buildings by prominent local architects on Howard Street and Northumberland Square was complete. The west and south sides remained unfinished until the late twentieth century due to the insertion of the railway tunnel (HER 1186) in the early 1840s. A new public library has been inserted into the south-west corner of Northumberland Square in the 1960s, damaging the formal integrity. Otherwise, the streets and much of their original fabric have remained generally intact. Northumberland Square is one of only a very small number of Georgian squares on Tyneside (cf. Dockwray Square, North Shields, Eldon Square and Charlotte Square, Newcastle and Sunniside Gardens, Sunderland) and is now the most intact. It is the closest thing on Tyneside to the iconic Georgian squares of Edinburgh, Dublin, London and Bath. Landmark buildings in the central part of the CA include the Subscription Library or Stagline Building, Salvation Army Chapel, Baptist Church on Howard Street, the Church of St. Columba, the town hall and mechanics institute on Saville Street. Nos. 1-15 Norfolk Street are modest two bay houses and Tyneside flats. Northumberland Square's central gardens (HER 11363) are pivotal to the late Georgian development pattern, designed as a private communal area of ornamental walks, and shown on Rook's 1827 plan. There is also a square outside the Stag Line Building designed in the late C20 as a pedestrian space paved with granite blocks, bounded by replica metal railings, with four flag poles, a salvaged anchor and a shipping bollard.

Designated on 19th March 1981. The Conservation Area is Victorian in character, containing 13 buildings. The central open space is approximately 1 hectare in size. The area once formed part of Kirton Park Farm, which lay to the south of the CA next to Camp Terrace. From the middle of the 18th Century North Shields was expanding with developments for the wealthy such as Dockwray and Northumberland Squares. The success of these developments led to prestigious developments elsewhere. John Fenwick sold land which would become Preston Park to four local families to build four grand villas. These were Preston Tower (HER 11936), Easby House, now called Peary House, Clementhorpe and Ingleside. The first house to be built was Clementhorpe before 1866. Easby House and Preston Tower were built in the early 1870s. Lincluden and Denham House were built on the east side of the park in the 1880s. At the turn of the twentieth century a plan was approved to complete the park with a central area of open space and a further seven villas on the private road. These were built between 1895 and 1907. Lincluden, Clementhorpe and Preston Tower were designed by local architect F.R.N. Haswell. The CA focuses around a rectangular park, which gives this little enclave its name. The area is very natural and heavily wooded. A Tree Preservation Order covers the park and the trees in the private gardens. Twelve large Victorian houses front onto the park varying in style and size. The park was once bounded by an iron post and rail fence but this was removed in the 1990s. A 6m wide private road runs around the park. At the south entrance the original gateposts remain. The houses along the southern boundary of the CA were built after the turn of the twentieth century. To the rear of these properties is a high Victorian brick wall, enclosing the southern aspect of the Park.

Tynemouth is an ancient settlement which grew up to service the Priory, then the military. Later it became a spa resort for the wealthy seeking a 'sea cure'. Religious buildings have occupied the headland since the 8th century. The ruined priory church (HER 117) dates to the 11th century, replacing an earlier Anglo Saxon church. The surrounding castle (HER 133) was enlarged in Elizabethan times with the fortified curtain wall (HER 134) and the Spanish Battery (HER 136). The medieval street pattern (HER 137) can still be observed in East Street and in the parallel layout of Front Street, Middle Street and Percy Street (Back Street). There are 17th, 18th and 19th century houses on Front Street. The popularity of Tynemouth as a holiday destination began in the early 19th century and increased with the arrival of the railway and the opening of Tynemouth Terminal (HER 2050) in 1847. At this time terraces of substantial three storey houses in elegant late Georgian classical style were built. Hotspur Street to Percy Park consists of densely packed late Victorian terraces. Edwardian period houses with slate roofs and sash windows followed. Percy Gardens crescent (HER 9342) was developed from the 1860s behind landscaped gardens (HER 5252) overlooking King Edward's Bay. The Grand Hotel (HER 7342) was built in the mid 1870s. The Duke of Northumberland was the landowner of the village, hence the names Percy Street, Warkworth Terrace, Syon Street and Percy Park. Tynemouth Station (HER 2127) was constructed in 1882 to replace various terminus stations (HER 2046). The statue to Admiral Lord Collingwood (HER 1976), Nelson's second in command at Trafalgar was erected in 1845. The breakwater pier (HER 2065, 1984) from the headland was built between 1854 and 1895. The Volunteer Life Brigade Watch House (HER 2214) opened in 1887. The cliffs and the Black Middens are Sites of Special Scientific Interest. The Howl Ings and Prior's Park Allotments are Sites of Nature Conservation Importance. The coastline is part of the Northumberland Coast Special Protection Area. The Plaza was burned out in 1996 and has since been demolished. The open air swimming pool (HER 9312) has been in-filled to create a rock pool. There are some 49 listed buildings in the CA {Tynemouth Village Character Statement, 2001}.

Designated in 1974. 'Erdesdun' (hill of red earth) is first mentioned in the 9th century. For a short time after the Norman Conquest, Earsdon was part of the De Mowbray's barony. Documentary references from the early 12th century show that the two-row village was owned by Tynemouth Priory from 1067. In 1649 the common fields were enclosed. The village flourished in the 17th century. In the Civil War, Parlimentarian troops were billeted upon the villagers. The end of the 17th century until the end of the 19th was the most prosperous period of Earsdon's history. Most of the present village dates to this time. The surrounding countryside is designated Green Belt and Protected Open Space to restrain expansion of the village. The oldest part of Earsdon lies west of the Red Lion Inn, south of Front Street. There are old stone walls and buildings, one of which is the remains of an old pele tower built in the 16th century. Earsdon contains 12 listed buildings. The most commanding is St. Alban's Church (HER 7250). To the west of the church is the Arts and Crafts style Edward Eccles Church Hall (HER 7249). The Quarry Cottage on Church Way, built on a former quarry, is a quirky 1960s dwelling with deeply cutting roof, prominent chimney, cat slide dormer and a generous garden to the south with trees protected by a Tree Preservation Order. At the corner of Church Way is a terrace of modest coursed sandstone cottages but at the pavement edge. The former primary school was built in 1860 and is now used as the community centre. The vicarage (HER 7248) is listed grade 2, as is Manor House (HER 7251). The war memorial is listed grade 2 (HER 7258). The stables and coach house to Bleak Hope House (HER 7255) are also listed. The Garth (HER 7256) and The Smithy (HER 9404) lie on Front Street close to Bleakhope House (HER 7253). The Red Lion Pub replaced the old stone pub of the same name. The Cannon Inn (HER 8401) has a hipped roof. Eastfield House is a Victorian rendered detached villa with a generous garden. There are Edwardian terraces (John Street, Church View and Garden Terrace). Woodlands Close is a late C20 estate of bungalows. Earsdon has won the Wansbeck Trophy for Best Village 2002-2005.

Designated in 2003. The river improvement works of the Tyne Improvement Commission from 1850 assisted the development of the fishing and shipping industries. Work began on the Fish Quay in 1870. This was constructed at the mouth of the Pow Burn or the Gut, to provide fishing vessels with facilities to unload catches and take on supplies. A jetty was built to protect boats from the sea. The quay had to be enlarged several times. The first market sheds were built in 1871 to provide protection from the weather. Boats were built and repaired around the Fish Quay, masts, blocks, ropes, nets, chains and anchors were made to fir out the fishing boats. The fishermen could buy food, drink, clothes, charts and navigation instruments here. Fish were traded here, processed (by salting or smoking) and transported to distant markets. Bell's Court (now Quayside Court) was built in 1927. Slum clearances took place in the 1930s to reduce the residential population. St. Peter's, the 'Sailor's Church' closed. The CA includes a number of pieces of artwork - the Dolphin Mooring Post, two large cod on Nater's Stairs, decorative street furniture along Union Quay and Bell Street, metal grilles in the fish quay and market wall depicting herring girls at work by Maureen Black. There are two wooden dollies and a statue of Stan Laurel. The Fish Quay today is a rugged commercial area. The Fisherman's Mission still stands on Union Quay and there are a number of wet fish shops. The white fish industry has declined, but this is England's premier prawn port and home to the country's only fish filleting training school. There is a residential corridor from Union Quay to the end of Dolphin Quays. On the bank top there are new residential developments. Old buildings include the Grieves building (HER 7855), The Prince of Wales Tavern (HER 9437), Wight's Shipping Grocers (HER 9367), the Irvin Building (HER 7309). The stairways are important to the character of the CA (e.g. Library Stairs). The fish quay retains traditional paving and kerbs, a variety of mooring bollards along the quay edge, winch blocks at upper-storey loading doors. The fish market lies behind grille gates. Clifford's Fort (HER 149 and 150) is a Scheduled Ancient Monument. Beside the Fort is the New Low Light (HER 2057) and horse and cart tracks and setts probably dating from 1884. Other interesting buildings within the Fort walls are Vita House (HER 10861), Northern Print Studio (HER 10860) and its alleyway paved with old setts, bordered by new fish-embossed pavors, Quay Master's Office (HER 9423), New Dolphin Public House (HER 10859), Caley's Ships' Chandlers (HER 9386), the Maltings (HER 4549) and Low Lights Tavern (HER 7278).