Early C19 villa. Finely cut ashlar with moulded eaves cornice. Welsh slate roof,
ashlar end chimneys. Tall blank plinth. Two storeys, three bays, wide proportions.
Plain reveals to sash windows. Five stone steps with wrought iron handrail to
six-panel door with oblong fanlight in a plain stone surround with prominent coved
cornice. Added modern dormer. LISTED GRADE 2

Mid C19. Squared stone. Two pairs of gate piers, one for carriage entrance, one
for footway: square, with plinth, projecting cornice and blocking course, pyramidal
top. Included for group considerations. LISTED GRADE 2

Substantial house of the 1860's.

Two storeys and attic. Three parallel ridges (slated roofs and fancy ridge tiles)
with gable ends to road, stepped back from North to South. Snecked sandstone rubble
with white brick quoins and dressings. Sash windows, varying sizes, central canted
bay and another on right return. Conservatory at South-east corner. Entrance
lobby on North return has engraved glass with monogram of Sir Joseph Wilson Swan, FRS.
Sir Joseph lived at Underhill from 1869 until 1883, in the conservatory his most
important experiments were conducted those to do with dry plate photography and
engraving and in particular the making of filaments for the first practical
incandescent electric lamp. The house is therefore of more than ordinary historical
importance. It is also relatively unspoilt, retaining its staircase, most of the
interior woodwork, fireplaces and the original bathroom, complete with bath.

Underhill was the first house in England to be wired for domestic electric lighting
and some of the early fittings remain.

Sources: "A Memoir of Sir Joseph Swan" by M E and R K Swan, 1929.

Everyman's Encyclopaedia {1}. Pevsner calls it a large unlovely polychrome villa. LISTED GRADE 2*

Railway Bridge of former York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway
1849, rail approach to High Level Bridge. Attributed to John Dobson. Slantwise
over the road. Ashlar side piers support set back wide segmental arch with pointed
rusticated voussoirs. Deep cornice broken forward around piers. Blocking course
and tall parapet over. The segmental barrel vault of the bridge is of skewed banded
rusticated stone. LISTED GRADE 2

Early C19. Snail one-storey lodge of local pinkish brick with stone dressings,
hipped slate roof. Now a shop. Two windows and central door, all in stone
architraves, with panels below windows, glazing modern. Stone plinth, frieze
and eaves cornice. Four-panel door with oblong fanlight. Small pent right
extension of similar materials. Listed partly for group value with Regent
Terrace (qv). LISTED GRADE 2

1854 by M Thompson. The building occupies a flattened triangular island site.
Coursed stone with ashlar dressings. Low pitched Welsh slate roof with corniced
stone stacks. Three storeys at east end, two at west, five and fivebays. Moulded
eaves cornice and frieze, raised quoins, high moulded plinth. Upper floors have
five-light double-chamfered stone-mullioned windows with raised surrounds. Arcaded
ground floor with archivolts and strong key-stones, the arches framed in an Ionic
Order with faceted rusticated pilasters, the rustication continuing into the arch
pilasters. Some engraved glass, patterned glazing bars. Wider, plainer bays on
south-west front and a "Norman Shaw" type oriel in the southernmost bay. Entrance
in single west bay.

History: Built by Alderman Potts, wine merchant, as business premises. Became a
hotel circa 1890. LISTED GRADE 2

1877. Narrow courses of rusticated sandstone with ashlar dressings, in modified classical style. Two storeys, three bays, the centre wide and projecting with angle pilasters, entablature and pediment with carved ornament. First floor round arched window with archivolt crossed by impost string supported on two Ionic column mullions. Cill string. Ground floor triple arcade with round columns, archivolts, vermiculate keystones. Lower side bays with rounded corners to five-bay returns,
entablature and balustraded parapet. Segment headed windows above, round arched below. On east return, a one-storey link of two narrow bays to a two-storey, three-bay school house of similar style and materials with a short balancing wing to south. LISTED GRADE 2

Third quarter of C19. Ashlar with flush quoins, frieze and moulded cornice.
Fairly low pitched slated roof with stone corniced chimneys. Moulded architraves
and projecting cills to sash windows. Paired doors with cornice heads and oblong
fanlights in stone pilaster-and-entablature surrounds.

Listed as perhaps the last surviving unspoilt example of a local 2-flat dwelling
of high quality but modest size, in a polite style and formerly in a polite
setting. LISTED GRADE 2

1887 removed from Town Moor, Newcastle. Timber and tiles. Octagonal with two
front bays open, flanking bays half-walled. Frame of rough rustic posts and braces
to conical roof with octagonal drum and pointed cupola. Walls of half branches
applied in geometrical patterns, open-work on the drum. LISTED GRADE 2

Circa 1800. Two octagonal buildings. Stone and wrought iron. Coursed squared
stone bases, framed upper parts rising to pointed roofs. LISTED GRADE 2