Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition.

Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition. Extended by 1898.

Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition.

Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition.

Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition.

Farmstead built before 1849, comprising of a farmhouse, central barn, stable, cart shed and other buildings. By 1860 a horse-gin house had been added and the main barn was extended. By 1897 the T-shaped structure which is present today was created by joining two buildings together. Since 1938 the horse gin and shed north of the farm entrance have been demolished. The stockyard and three ranges of brick and stone stables, once part of neighbouring East Farm, were added to the West Farm steading, through demolition of the dividing wall. Most of the farm buildings are built of sandstone rubble, with squared masonry in the outer walls that face the street. The "Earsdon Town West Farm" of the seventeenth century was owned by a Newcastle weaver called John Pigg. He died in 1688 or 1689 leaving his estate to trustees to run on behalf of his neice, Ann Rea. In 1849 William Storey was tenant of West Farm.

The property is shown on a plan of c.1857 as the proposed "Minories House". It was to be built for a Mr George Davidson, pawnbroker, and was designed by architect Johnston Hogg, Pilgrim Street, Newcastle. By 1859 the house had been built and was occupied. The drawing shows a conventional comfortable double-fronted middle-class home of the period, with drawing room, dining room, kitchen, parlour and wash-house. The house occupied an oddly shaped site next to All Saints Cemetery. It appears to replace an earlier building. In July 1877 a plan was submitted for the addition of bay windows. By 1898 a heated coach house and stable block had been built, and small outbuildings comprising of coalhouse, privy and ashpit, between house and stables. The house remained in the hands of the Davidson family until 1922 when the property became the workshops and offices of JR Rutherford and Sons, Joiners. Workshops were built in the former garden to the west of the house. In recent times the building was in use as "Shiner's" antique shop.

Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition of 1858, possibly indicative of the site of a windmill. An estate map of the Ettrick and Robinson Estate of Silksworth Hall, dated to 1714, does show a windmill. The Tithe plan 1842 shows a circular outline in the area, which could be because the windmill was subjected to enclosure, to protect it from grazing animals, though no building is drawn. As other buildings are shown on the tithe plan, perhaps the windmill had fallen out of use and was demolished between 1714-1842. No windmill is mentioned in the apportionment.

Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition of 1898 as a farmhouse and range of farm buildings surrounding a courtyard to the rear with a pond to the ESE. The pond has disappeared by the 1919 OS plan and two long outbuildings have been constructed behind the earlier farm building range. Documentary evidence first cites Vicarage Farm in 1895 (Ward) with a John Joseph Botcherby as occupier. He may be the son of the Joseph Botcherby who had occupied Mill Hill Farm during the same period. By 1911 Richard Thompson is the occupier. The farm appears to have closed in 1923.

Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition of 1858, gone by 1898.