Shieldfield House is a landmark in its area. It is a high quality, 26 storey, flat roofed block of flats, built by Douglas Wise and Partners and is the sister building to Jesmond Vale House. The east and west sides are identical apart from the ground floor entrance on the west front. Each floor has six groups of two square windows, separated by concrete projections. The north and south elevations appear similar due to central brick sections which contrast with the concrete. On the north side this central section is a stairway, and on the south each floor of the brick section contains two groups of two windows, separated by concrete projections.

These Georgian villas of the 1820s were once part of a row of grand houses and may have been designed by John Dobson. The villas were built on land belonging to Sir Matthew White Ridley. Domestic use of the villas ceased in 1913/1914 when the building was converted into a TB hospital. By the 1960s Ridley Villas was being used as a general medical unit, which closed in 1972. The two storey brick and stone villa is now a hostel.

The Queen’s Arms public house is an impressive corner building in a good location, and remains relatively unspoilt. The pub was established in 1855 by manager Joseph Smith of Manor Brewery. In 1882 it had been sold to John Graham, and remained in the family until 1939. It was enlarged in 1892. There were more alterations in 1922 and 1937. It was acquired by McEwan's in 1939. In 1947 a new brick façade was erected. By 1963 the building was the last remaining on Simpson Terrace. It has since been given the T&J Bernard treatment by Newcastle Breweries. George Robinson, a boxer, was the manager for more than 20 years. He fought as Ginger Roberts so the pub was nicknamed Ginger's. He became a relief manager for Scottish & Newcastle in the 1970s and worked at the County in Gosforth and the Viaduct in Byker. The pub is two storeys, and is rendered with an arched doorway.

1897 beer house. It had a cellar, bar, bottle and jug end, smoke room and two living rooms. The Harrogate House pub was bought from Bass by William Beadling of the Crawshay Inn, Gateshead in 1925 for £4,000. In 1930 it was extended. In 1935 it was sold to Robert Deuchar five years later for £10,500. Alterations to ground floor in 1948. The pub became fully licensed in 1950 and was [in 1996] the ownership of Newcastle Breweries. In 2012 it is R2 Indian Continental Buffet.

The chimney of the former Maynard Toffee Factory is a landmark in the Ouseburn Valley. The Toffee Factory was established in 1906 after the conversion of a livestock sanatorium that had been constructed in 1870. The majority of the factory building is now derelict due to a fire; however the chimney remains to contribute to the skyline of the area.

The site of the Glasshouse Bridge, at the confluence of the Ouseburn and the Tyne has long been a popular point at which to cross the Ouseburn Valley; there was a wooden bridge at a lower level as early as 1619. The 6-arch brick road bridge was built in 1878 and provided easier access to the industrial sites along the river bank. The name is derived from the former Glass Houses that stood on the eastern side of the Ouseburn Valley. Originally the bridge was known as New Glasshouse Bridge to differentiate it from the older Lower Glasshouse Bridge, which was demolished in 1908.

Four square piers mark the Heaton Road entrance to Heaton Park. The two central piers, capped with carved arch stones, are larger and support double wrought iron gates. Curved stone walls connect these piers to the smaller outer piers which are capped by dome shaped stones. The entrance was added to the park in 1909.

These are fine well preserved examples of late 19th Century former Co-op buildings. They give this section of Heaton Road tremendous character, and are prominently located on the corner of Cardigan Terrace. Built in 1892, the buildings are 3 storeys high, apart from the single storey garage situated on the Terrace. Brick is the dominant material used to construct these buildings, however stone is used as decoration for the windows and garage façade. Between the first and second floors there is a stone inscription around the building which reads ‘Newcastle Upon Tyne Cooperative Society Limited, Heaton Road Branch, Registered Office 117 Newgate Street’.

These two art pieces at the base of Stepney Bank contribute to the attractive newly regenerated landscape of the Ouseburn. Situated at the entrance to the village green and the car park, the two ‘columns’ of stacked bowls on square stone bases stand about ten foot tall. They are good scale and fit the surrounding streetscape.

The two pigeon crees on either side of Lime Street greatly add to the aesthetic character of the Lower Ouseburn Valley. They highlight the long tradition of this local pastime. The crees are recently built timber structures nestled amongst the trees on the banks of the Ouseburn. Their blue and white designs make them quite distinctive {1}. The pigeon lofts and Ouseburn Homing Society clubhouse are to be renewed, with the addition of a boat club house. There are two lofts, each constructed from a plywood covered timber frame with an asphalt roof. The original roof may have been oiled cloth. The ‘racing end’ (divided into sections for birds that are ready to race, young birds and breeding pairs) was completed in 1936 by Richard and Robert Morton and the ‘stock end’ (where feed and water are stored) was added in 1976. A fence-like structure known as a ‘dolly’ or ‘sail’ along the front of the roof was designed to discourage returning birds from landing on the roof rather than returning to their cages, which were arranged in four tiers. The sport of pigeon racing began in earnest in the early 1800s as a popular pastime particularly amongst working men in industrial areas. The new build will be monitored by an archaeologist as a watching brief in order that any buried archaeological remains can be recorded.