This single storey school building is first shown on the Second Edition Ordnance Survey map of 1897. It is constructed from red brick in English garden wall bond with stone window dressings. The buildings were sited on the southwest side of a plot facing onto Smith Street, with a wall dividing the yard, presumably into girls and boys sections. A pair of small ancillary buildings, possibly toilets, are shown on either side of the wall. 'Taking Stock' states that a 'school-chapel was established by 1875, possibly in existing houses in Brick Row, replaced by a purpose-built school-chapel in 1894'.
By the time of the Second Edition Ordnance Survey map of 1920, Dinsdale Street had been laid out to the immediate southwest of the school and some terraced housing built. A small building labelled 'Inst.' had been built on the northeast side of the school plot, and St Patrick's Roman Catholic Church and Presbytery to the northwest (HER19080). Further additions were made to the school buildings during the 20th century. A stone plaque on the end of the northwest wing facing onto Smith Street commemorates the foundation stone being laid in 1926.

A series of pits were excavated as part of a larger excavation. The palaeoenvironmental assemblages indicated a prehistoric date, and a flint blade and core of Mesolithic or early Neolithic date were also recovered, although these may be residual.
Excavation was undertaken in 2021 and post-excavation analysis was undertaken in 2023 (event 5467 report 2023/34).

The Mill Lead of the Team Valley Paper Mills (HER19074) is shown on the Ordnance Survey six inch map of 1862 (Durham Sheet VI), and in greater detail on the Ordnance Survey 1:500 Town Plan of 1896 (Sheet 129). It took water from the River Team at a point to the southeast where it was dammed and split (NZ2395561525), and brought it northwest to Burnip's Brick and Tile Works (HER3789) where the channel was spilt again. The southern leg fed the Mill Dam (HER19075) whilst the northern leg made its way along the eastern and northern perimeter of the site and re-joined the River Team at the northwest corner. The land between these was used for allotments and terraced housing. The site appears to have gone out of use in the 1960s and is now sports pitches.

The Mill Dam of the Team Valley Paper Mills (HER19074) is shown on the Ordnance Survey six inch map of 1862 (Durham Sheet VI), and in greater detail on the Ordnance Survey 1:500 Town Plan of 1896 (Sheet 129). It was located in the centre of the site and fed by the Mill Lead (HER19076). The site appears to have gone out of use in the 1960s and is now sports pitches.

The Team Valley Paper Mills is shown on the Ordnance Survey six inch map of 1862 (Durham Sheet VI), and in greater detail on the Ordnance Survey 1:500 Town Plan of 1896 (Sheet 129). Two large buildings with chimneys dominated the northwest and southwest sides of the site, enclosing a number of smaller buildings and a Mill Dam (HER19075). To the southeast was the Mill Lead (HER19076), looping around allotments and terraced housing. The site appears to have gone out of use in the 1960s and is now sports pitches.
Durham County Record Office holds some records comprising a letter book, purchase journal, cash book, wages book, sales journals, deeds, plans, etc dated 1895-1963 (Reference D/TVP NRA catalogue reference NRA 35658 Team). The northern part of the site can be seen on the bottom of aerial photos held by http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/.

A semi-circular gully which may have been a drip eves gully for a small structure or a heavily truncated, and much smaller, barrow. The gully was heavily truncated by a plough furrow. The feature measured 0.30m to 0.40m in width and 0.10m to 0.15m in depth. Two fills were identified one of which contained a flint fragment.

A trackway partially truncated by furrows which was identified by a geophysical survey as a pit alignment. The feature measured c.10.5m in width, c. 0.2m in depth and over 50m long. The track is described as being uniformly filled with a lower fill of light white-grey silty sand and an upper fill of dark grey-brown silty sand. A series of worked flints including tanged and barbed arrowheads and scrapers were obtained from the trackway fills, these have been dated to the Neolithic or Early Bronze Age. Several pits and post-holes were identified cut into the trackway. The trackway may have formed part of the site’s wider burial landscape and is likely to be associated with two nearby barrows.

The south round barrow ditch measured c.1m in width and c.0.2-0.3m in depth due to truncation. The ditch fill was homogenous and comprised of mid-brown sandy silt with frequent rounded pebble inclusions. Two slots were excavate at the site of two possible terminals which may have formed an entrance into the barrow structure, however, this could not be confirmed due to the level of truncation. Three worked flints were recovered from the barrow ditch which are provisionally dated to the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age. A sub-oval U-shaped burial pit which measured 0.45m by 0.51m was identified at the centre of the barrow. This contained a cremation burial comprised of substantial quantities of calcined and carbonised bone fragments within a dark greyish black sandy silt matrix. No associated vessel and or pottery was recovered from this burial.

The northern barrow measured c.17m in diameter, the barrow ditch measured c.1m in width and between c.0.2m to c.0.45m in depth with a rounded U-shaped profile. The ditch fill is described as a mid-orange-brown silty sand, with some indications of a primary fill of light yellow-brown silt. Possible ditch terminals were identified which could have formed the entrance to the barrow. The northernmost burial comprised of a pit which measured c.0.4m in diameter with a U-shaped profile. The pit contained a primary and secondary cremation. The central burial also comprised of a circular U-shaped pit which measured c.0.62m across. The fill was a dark grey-brown sandy silt associated with a possible heat-affected dark red-brown clayey silt deposit. Both of these fills contained the remains of a cremation. The southern most burial was located within a sub-circular U-shaped pit which measured c.0.6m across and 0.41m deep. A Bronze Age Collared Urn was identified within this pit, it has been deposited on its base. The Collared Urn, measured 0.41m tall, 0.3m at the mouth, 0.34m at the collar and 0.3m at the neck. Cord was found to have been pressed across the collar for decoration.

The earliest reference to 31 Holmeside has been identified in Kelly’s Trade Directory for the County of Durham in 1910 where the building is listed as Maynards Limited, Confectioners. The last reference to the building being used as a confectioner is from 1935, although there is a gap in the archive between then and 1952. The building was subsequently owned by ED Walker & Wilson between 1952 and 1963. From the 1980s, the building has been used as a public house. The single-storey brick building is associated with an embellished art deco / neo classical façade located on the north facing gable. In the middle of the arch there is a stylised badge of the American singer Frank Sinatra.