Charlton Memorial
Drinking Fountain to north-west of Saltwell Towers
Late C19. Stone and granite in Gothic style. Square stepped base and battered
shaft. Grey granite basins on each face supported on corbels with pink granite
columns. Main shaft has inset corner columns of pink granite and high relief
carvings, a gable on each face and a crocketed spire with angle pinnacles. Two
portrait heads, a coat of arms and an inscription to: "GEORGE CHARLTON ESQ JP
Mayor of Gateshead 1874 and 1875 in recognition of his labours in the cause of
social reform", in the 4 gable ends.

A large house standing in Saltwell Park (formerly the estate of the house), built in 1871 for William Wailes, the stained-glass manufacturer. The style of the building is largely a mixture of Gothic and Elizabethan with some French influence. The general external appearance is dominated by asymmetrical towers, steeply pitched roofs, plain and crenellated parapets and tall chimney-stacks.
Dark brick with yellow brick dressings and some yellow brick decorative patterns.
The south front is of 2 storeys. Square projecting corner-turrets with crenellated parapets, and a taller turret projecting towards the right end. This turret rises through the ground floor and first floor as a 3-sided bow with 3 single lights per storey. It continues upwards through the main parapet to form a third-storey room in the roof. The turret has its own parapet with stone string-courses, sloping stone capping and fish-scale tiled roof of very steep pitch. This roof has 3 triangular sides, corresponding to the sides of the bow-front below, and is continued back to cover the turret. Along the roof-ridge runs a decorative wrought-iron railing with open work decorative finials at each end. The main south front has a continuous parapet with sloping stone capping and a stone string course. A second stone string course divides the storeys. Large plate-glass windows of 4 lights with mullions and single transom, and one opening casement each. In recessed bay towards the middle, a square-headed doorway with rectangular fanlight over and 12-panel door. Large 2-storey bow front on west side of similar character, but with heraldic devices set into parapet. On north side, a 3-storey projecting entrance tower with crenellated parapet and polygonal stair-turret rising above parapet level to a circular pyramidal roof with decorative weather-vane. Projecting wooden porch with curved roof. Some of the original panelling commissioned from Gerrard Robinson is preserved in the Shipley Art Gallery {LB description}. William Wailes, Newcastle stained-glass artist, bought part of Saltwellside, and in 1856 designed the spectacular Gothic Saltwell Towers, built 1860-71. Of red brick with black and yellow decoration, it was Elizabethan in style, with dramatic towers, turrets and pinnacles.The interior, originally sumptuous with fittings and furniture by Gerard Robinson. In 1876 Wailes (d.1881) sold Saltwell Towers to Gateshead, but leased it back. A later occupant was J.A.D. Shipley (d.1909), whose picture collection became the Shipley Art Gallery. In 1914-18 Saltwell Towers was a hospital, but afterwards stood empty until used as the Local and Industrial Museum, 1933-68. Dry rot forced its closure and it remained derelict ever since.
During the First World War the British Red Cross Society and the Order of St John of Jerusalem combined to form the Joint War Committee to raise and organise Voluntary Aid Detachments (VADs) trained in First Aid and Nursing. The nurses were a mixture of qualified nurses and volunteers (mostly middle-class women). The organisation administered auxiliary hospitals and convalescent homes - many set up in large houses on loan to the Red Cross during the war. VAD hospitals received the sum of 3 shillings per day per patient from the War Office. Saltwell Towers (& Whinney House) were under the 1st Durham VA Hospital Unit. Saltwell was also known as St. John's Ambulance Brigade Hospital. Honours for service to this hospital were received by: Miss L Corbitt (Commandant) - Royal Red Cross 2nd Class, Miss Elsie Leinster (Quartermaster) - MBE and Mrs Marian Palmer - Royal Red Cross 2nd Class.

Dated 1903. Tall, rusticated sandstone plinth on square base. Limestone figure of a soldier in Boer War field uniform. On bottom cill two signatures, one illegible, the other: MORRISON. Incised lettering onto granite tablet on pedestal - "TO THE MEMORY OF SERGEANT W. CRONE AND TROOPERS A. DODD, W.B.S. LEATHART, F. ENGLISH, A. WILLIAMSON WHO FELL DURING THE SOUTH AFRICAN CAMPAIGN 1899 - 1902 "FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH" ERECTED BY THE INHABITANTS OF LOW FELL 1903 THE ABOVE MENTIONED WERE ALL OF THE IMPERIAL YEOMANRY". 5 names are listed, 1 sergeant and 4 officers. The statue is said to have been modelled on the sergeant.

Grand Italianate villa of ashlar, narrowly coursed and with rusticated quoins, roll moulded plinth and eaves entablature. Deep paired brackets below low pitched hipped slate roof. Two storeys in main block and in slightly later south extensions - of similar materials but plainer. on garden front, projects a four-storey tower with thick rusticated quoins, first floor entablature, deep bracketed eaves and pyramidal roof with lead pinnacle. Three wide bays on this front with a narrow link to tower, and extensions beyond. Much rounded rustication. Five bays on entrance front with a large central prostyle porch with paired columns, balustraded balcony above. Windows mostly modernised but in original openings, some classical architraves, some roll moulded reveals. Built as residence for Edward Joicey, coal owner. Modern fire escape and south-west extensions {1}. Whinney house was built in 1867 and extended in the 1870s. It belonged to Edward Joicey, a member of a prominent local family. The house ceased to be a private residence early in the 20th century and has been used as a hospital, as offices and as a school for Torah studies. Whinney House was the grandest of a group of large houses. The building was significantly altered when the conservatory was made part of the hospital. Elsewhere there are few major changes, but most historic internal features have been swept away and many of the main rooms have been insensitively subdivided. No fireplaces remain. The gardens are also generally intact but have suffered from long-term neglect, particularly of the trees. The building was recorded in 2013 by Archaeological Services Durham University.
During the First World War the British Red Cross Society and the Order of St John of Jerusalem combined to form the Joint War Committee to raise and organise Voluntary Aid Detachments (VADs) trained in First Aid and Nursing. The nurses were a mixture of qualified nurses and volunteers (mostly middle-class women). The organisation administered auxiliary hospitals and convalescent homes - many set up in large houses on loan to the Red Cross during the war. VAD hospitals received the sum of 3 shillings per day per patient from the War Office. Whinney House (and Saltwell Towers) were under the 1st Durham VA Hospital Unit. Honours for service to this hospital were received by: Mrs Janet Appleton (Quartermaster) -MBE, Mrs Mary Millar (Charge Sister) - Royal Red Cross 1st Class and Mrs Marian Palmer (Matron and Commandant) - Royal Red Cross 2nd Class.

1882 snecked tooled sandstone with Welsh slate roofs. Symmetrical west front has
tall central gabled bay and flanking smaller bays with octagonal attics above eaves
which are broken by lancets under trefoils. Pointed, banded roofs. Central recess
has rose window over three lancets; and flanking single lancets. Three tiny stepped
lancets in gable peak. Two pointed arched doorways. A pleasing and individual
adaptation of early Gothic. Cost £4000 and seated 650 people.

Early C19. Ashlar, Welsh slate roof, brick chimneys. End house with 2 bays on street, three on west return. Two storeys and basement. Cill bands, frieze and cornice. Stone steps with cast iron rails to six-panel door in pilaster and entablature surround. Sash windows with glazing bars. Inserted tripartite window with trefoil heads to inner lights {1}. An elegant extended villa with a large garden. Built 1819-1824 {2}.

Late C17. Brick and stone. Small square building with scrolled parapet, corner
pinnacles and short obelisk. Originally built for Robert Trollop (d 1686),
Architect of Newcastle Guildhall, Capheaton and other country houses. Adopted by
the Green family in the C19 when much of the brickwork was renewed.

Late C19. North gateway to lower stable-coach house with hipped roof, central gable over loading door, chamfered segment-headed openings, similar materials to house.

Early C19, end of a terrace of which the other houses have been altered. Red brick, hip ended Welsh slate roof with brick chimneys. Rubble stone rear wall. Stone dressings include eaves cornice and frieze, first floor band, plinth, cills and lintels. Three storeys, one wide bay and a later C19 public house extension to right.
Sash windows, some with glazing bars. Pleasing arcaded front to public house.
At first floor on corner a well carved stone plaque: ROMULUS TERRACE.

1848 by John Dobson with wide north aisle added in 1875. Coursed stone with ashlar dressings, high pitched Welsh slate roof, in simple Romanesque style. Prominent eaves corbel table. 5-bay nave divided by flat buttresses. Single round headed windows in deep recesses. Short, low apsidal chancel has small cross-gabled aisles, the southern having chevron moulding to window and a small turret on the peak. South-west tower, of two stages, holds porch with chamfered and moulded doorway and two orders of nook-shafts. Stone broach spire with lucarnes. Small west vestry extension. Interior-round arcade piers, simple double-chamfered arches. West gallery on wood columns. Arch braced timber roof on stone corbels. Rib vaulted chancel, chevron moulded arch. Some good stained glass by Wailes, and by Thompson. In 2009 a photographic record was undertaken ahead of the redevelopment of the building for residential use.