Single storey cottage with slate roof and four brick chimneys in pairs. The sash windows are well-designed replacements. The garden has a neat hedge and gate piers forming an attractive corner.

An important brickyard established by Jones & Maxwell in 1895, to the west of Monkseaton cokeworks. By 1911 it was owned by Jones Brothers and developed to become the largest manufactory of first class engineering and facing bricks in the north-east of England for over 50 years.
A rope haulage system brought the clay up to the works, where four grinding mills reduced it to a fine, dry powder. Four brick machines (a Bradley & Craven and three Fawcett machines) produced up to 44,000 bricks per day; they were replaced by a Mitchel twin mould press in the mid 1960s. Until 1959, special shaped bricks were made in two small presses; a hand-operated screw press made warning tiles for electric cables; and rustic bricks began to be made in the late 1930s.
In 1928, three kilns were in use: a Hoffman-type continuous kiln (which was the first to be built here), with 14 chambers; a continuous kiln of 14 chambers; and a large continuous kiln with 16 chambers. At this time, there was also another disused circular downdraught kiln. In 1964, about 80 people worked at the yard; it appears to have closed in 1968.
1897-1968
Source: Davison, P J, 1986. Brickworks of the North East, 122 site 18, 127-8.

Reopened by Harton Coal Company in 1934, who built a continuous (Ideal) kiln, with a 140 feet high chimney at one end. Inside the kiln, there were 20 ‘chambers’, or settings, each capable of holding 18,000 bricks. There was a Bradey & Craven brick machine. Common bricks were mostly made before 1949, after which time the yard increased the production of engineering and facing bricks. Some 18 people were employed there and about 100,000 bricks were produced each week. The roof of the kiln collapsed in 1975, and the then owners (Messrs Gibbons Northern Brick Ltd) closed the yard.
1934-1975
Source: Davison, P J, 1986. Brickworks of the North East, 122 site 20, 126. *(Appears to be different from HER 2569)

In 1890, 55 people were employed. There were eight Newcastle kilns and an average 120,000 bricks were produced per week. Drying sheds varied in size from 40 to 50 yards long and 15 yards wide.
Source: Davison, P J, 1986. Brickworks of the North East, 122 site ?, 126.

Works established in 1952 by the Consett Iron Company. Output was 350 tons per week. Raw materials were brought in by rail, road or sea. The raw materials passed through a double-toggle steel-framed jaw crusher and delivered beneath a magnetic head pulley to remove any ferrous material, and then to one of ten 120-ton capacity bunkers, each with a different raw material. The material then passed through a secondary crusher (Nordberg 24-inch cone crusher), via conveyor belts, and on to a Nordberg double-deck vibratory screen, which separates material into various sizes. A conical ball mill grinds some material to a very fine powder.
The raw materials were mixed in a batch mixer, which vary from 7 feet in diameter (1 ton), to the smaller Cumflow machine (1/2 ton). The material was discharged down a chute into a skip and taken to the three presses: a Fielding & Platt hydraulic press, a John Shaw Ltd hydraulic press (from Templetown Works, Consett), and a Whittaker & Co mechanical press.
A tunnel dryer and kiln were in operation in 1954. The dryer (68 feet long) was heated by waste gases of combustion from the tunnel kiln. Bricks were allowed 18 hours drying time, and up to 175 tons could be handled per week. The tunnel kiln (225 feet long) had preheating, firing and cooling zones. Cast iron cars loaded with bricks were pushed through the kiln by a hydraulic ram for a period of 65½ hours. There were 22 burners in the firing zone, 11 on each side, and the kiln reached a temperature of up to 1650º centigrade. The kiln was designed and built by personnel from the Consett Iron Company and the bricks to build the kiln came from the Templetown Works.
A batch kiln was used for burning large and awkward shapes. It measured 15½ feet wide, 41 feet long, and 8½ feet high, with ten oil burners. It operated on a 14 day cycle, giving an average output of nearly 50 tons per week. The burning process lasted five days, leaving nine days for cooling, drawing and re-setting.
Chemically-bonded ware was hardened off by passing it through a separate tunnel dryer over a period of 24 hours, which could handle up to 140 tons per week.
During the 1950s, about 126 people worked at the Basic Refractory Plant. By the 1970s this had been cut to 67. In 1975 a new gas-fired tunnel kiln was built by Gibbons Brothers Ltd. The works closed in 1985 when Stein Refractories Ltd took control of British Steel’s Refractory Division in County Durham.
1952-1986
Source: Davison, P J, 1986. Brickworks of the North East, 122 site 12, 124-6.
Works established in 1952 by the Consett Iron Company. Output was 350 tons per week. Raw materials were brought in by rail, road or sea. The raw materials passed through a double-toggle steel-framed jaw crusher and delivered beneath a magnetic head pulley to remove any ferrous material, and then to one of ten 120-ton capacity bunkers, each with a different raw material. The material then passed through a secondary crusher (Nordberg 24-inch cone crusher), via conveyor belts, and on to a Nordberg double-deck vibratory screen, which separates material into various sizes. A conical ball mill grinds some material to a very fine powder.
The raw materials were mixed in a batch mixer, which vary from 7 feet in diameter (1 ton), to the smaller Cumflow machine (1/2 ton). The material was discharged down a chute into a skip and taken to the three presses: a Fielding & Platt hydraulic press, a John Shaw Ltd hydraulic press (from Templetown Works, Consett), and a Whittaker & Co mechanical press.
A tunnel dryer and kiln were in operation in 1954. The dryer (68 feet long) was heated by waste gases of combustion from the tunnel kiln. Bricks were allowed 18 hours drying time, and up to 175 tons could be handled per week. The tunnel kiln (225 feet long) had preheating, firing and cooling zones. Cast iron cars loaded with bricks were pushed through the kiln by a hydraulic ram for a period of 65½ hours. There were 22 burners in the firing zone, 11 on each side, and the kiln reached a temperature of up to 1650º centigrade. The kiln was designed and built by personnel from the Consett Iron Company and the bricks to build the kiln came from the Templetown Works.
A batch kiln was used for burning large and awkward shapes. It measured 15½ feet wide, 41 feet long, and 8½ feet high, with ten oil burners. It operated on a 14 day cycle, giving an average output of nearly 50 tons per week. The burning process lasted five days, leaving nine days for cooling, drawing and re-setting.
Chemically-bonded ware was hardened off by passing it through a separate tunnel dryer over a period of 24 hours, which could handle up to 140 tons per week.
During the 1950s, about 126 people worked at the Basic Refractory Plant. By the 1970s this had been cut to 67. In 1975 a new gas-fired tunnel kiln was built by Gibbons Brothers Ltd. The works closed in 1985 when Stein Refractories Ltd took control of British Steel’s Refractory Division in County Durham.
1952-1986
Source: Davison, P J, 1986. Brickworks of the North East, 122 site 12, 124-6.

The brickyard at Stargate is recorded in 1874, when it had four kilns. The bricks were marked S.C.C. and mainly used in the Company’s pits and workmen’s cottages, with special firebricks going to Addison coke ovens.
Manufacturer at Stargate Colliery from 1875-1926 was the Stella Coal Company. 19th/20th Century Brickworks; 1875-1930.
Source: Davison, P J, 1986. Brickworks of the North East, 86, 87 site 5, 98.

The Bungalow is a small hipped roof brick inter-War house set in the corner of the once open plot to the west of the north footpath (HER 8499). The relatively tall front, side and rear boundary walls almost obscure it from view, making its attractive richly stained plain clay tile roof and chimneys prominent. Its side and rear extensions are suitably subservient but uPVC replacement windows, door and gutters have impacted on its character.

West of The Grange (HER 8167) is the north footpath which linked Monkton village (HER 152) to Bede's Well (HER 178). It originally crossed open fields behind the settlement, later a slag heap (HER 8279). The footpath leaves Monkton Lane past high brick and stone boundary walls and a close-boarded fence then enters Campbell Park (HER 8126). The path is separated from Grange Farm's farmyard (HER 8494) by brick boundary walls, stone farm buildings and a wedge of young trees.

A riverside firebrick works, situated west of the E & M Yard. In 1900 some five million firebricks were made here.
Dates: 1873 – 1906
19th/20th Century Brickworks
Source: Davison, P J, 1986. Brickworks of the North East, 68 site 27, 83

Built in 1921 by W Cochrane-Carr at the top of Two Ball Lonnen. Shale was extracted from a nearby quarry using explosives until 1953, when a mechanical excavator and drag line were introduced. The works comprised a 16-chamber Staffordshire transverse-arch kiln, each chamber holding 8500 bricks, with a 120 feet high chimney. Some 18 Simplex kilns stood in two rows, each capable of holding 6000 bricks. Three Mongrel kilns operated from 1921 to 1931, each holding 20,000 bricks. The Mongrel kilns were replaced by a row of nine Newcastle-type intermittent kilns, each holding 11,000 bricks; these were demolished in 1955. Tiles were originally dried on drying flats; in 1934 the open drying flats were replaced by seven drying chambers; the tiles were then set in one of the Simplex kilns. Production of tiles stopped in 1955 and the works concentrated on producing bricks.
Coal was originally supplied from W C Carr’s Benwell Charlotte mine, and after 1945 from North Walbottle Colliery. By 1967 the neighbouring quarry was exhausted of shale and, with no nearby economic supply, the works closed.
Dates: 1921 – 1967
20th Century brick and tile works
Source: Davison, P J, 1986. Brickworks of the North East, 68 site 21, 71-81.