Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition.

A brickworks was opened at Hetton Lyons Colliery in 1881. The yard eventually had 15 Newcastle kilns, some holding 9,000 bricks during a firing, others 12,000.
In the 1930s, seggar clay was obtained for the bricks from the Low Main seam which, after 1945, had an increasingly high carbon content and the quality of bricks produced at the works was considered poor. From 1955, better quality clay was brought in from an opencast coal site near Cocken.
In the 1920s, bricks were wire cut. In 1926, a Dawson Fawcett machine press was installed which could make 10,500 bricks a day. In 1934, another similar Dawson Fawcett press was bought which produced bricks at a rate of 11,500 per day. About 25 people worked in the brickyard until its closure in 1958.
A new works, FR Bricks Ltd., was opened on the same site at Hetton Lyons in 1961 by Dr. Fitzgerald and Stewart Russell. It made calcium silicate bricks (a mixture of sand and lime) which were hardened by autoclaves not standard kilns. Machinery for the production of this type of brick, including two Duplex Emperor presses, was supplied by Sutcliffe-Speakman Ltd of Leigh, Lancashire. Annual production was about 13 million bricks.
1881-1958 and F R Bricks Ltd 1961

1870-1914

The restored farmhouse, No. 62 Front Street (HER 9645) survives. No. 20 North Road, a large lare 20th century house, has been built in the former farmyard. There is however a small slate-roofed outbuilding survives on North Road, built onto the boundary walls.

1894-1960. High-quality fireclay goods were produced for the Lambton collieries. There were four Newcastle kilns (each holding 8000 bricks); seven circular downdraught kilns (each holding 18,800 bricks) with an internal diameter of 20 feet, each with six fireholes and two wickets; an 18-chamber Belgian-type continuous kiln, known here as a Bastard Hoffman kiln (each chamber holding 6600 bricks), with a chimney 125-feet high.

The farm buildings associated with West Farm's farmhouse (HER 8033) have been replaced by a 1990s brick development of two storeys with pitched roof. There is a dogleg passageway linking North Road to Front Street where evidence of the farm buildings can be seen as scarring on the east wall. The passageway is lined on both sides by limestone and brick walls.

A pair of 19th century houses. The ground floor of one of them is rendered. Small slate porch and three timber doors (one leading to a central alley). LOCAL LIST

Outbuildings and a cottage once associated with Nos. 43 to 49 Front Street (HER 8571). Much altered. Fragments of magnesian limestone boundary walls survive. Buildings to rear of No. 43 may be only part now surviving.

1894-1921

1869