Local residents believe that shipbuilding slipways exist on the foreshore of the River Wear. Two channels (4m x 60m) are said to be carved into the rock in the river bed at an angle. Iron tools have been collected. The site has yet to be inspected by the County Archaeologist but the photographs submitted to the HER seem only to show natural fissures in the limestone bedrock. Geologist Dr Andy Lane has inspected the Toby Gill area (Sept 2012) and concluded that the top surface of the sandstone beds show a rectilinear pattern of natural jointing. This can easily be mistaken for a man made structure (a crazy paving effect). The structures are definitely natural in original, common to sandstone beds everywhere. While not man made they may have provided flat surfaces useful for human operations by the water's edge. Sandstones can also be host to peculiar cup-like features, such as those found at Toby Gill. They range in form from rough irregular impressions to near perfect circular cups with smooth interiors. Sometimes the cups are in lines. How these cup-like features are formed is a matter of conjecture. They are too smooth to be due to natural erosion alone. They look like they have been drilled or bored by some organism, human or otherwise. Hollows in rocks can be caused by marine boring molluscs. D. Wilson notes that the river was wider at this point. The name Offerton could be a corruption of Aufladen (Offloaden) meaning offloading. Inspect the site.

First appears on the second edition Ordnance Survey map of 1898. Trees had been removed to provide an open aspect to the lawned terraces to the north. Steps led down to the woodland, and there was a circular garden to the east of the pond - this was a rose garden in the 1970s. The pond still exists but it is in poor condition and is overgrown. The pond has stone walls and a cascade, designed to resemble natural outcrops of bedrock. Ferns were planted around the rocks. In the late 1970s a butyl liner was introduced to clean out the pond. There is a large stone lion at the side of the pond, which faces northwards towards the Dene. The lion is over life-size and sites on a narrow block of stone. The crude nature of the carving shows that the statue was intended to impress at a distance rather than at close quarters.

This was an avenue of lime trees which was the main carriage drive to Jesmond Towers from Jesmond Dene Road. The carriage drive is shown on Thomas Oliver's plan of 1844. West Lodge (HER 13428, now gone), built by 1898, stood close to the junction of the carriage road and Jesmond Dene Road. Friday Fields Lane (HER 10117) cut across the lime tree avenue and supposedly ran under it via an underpass and cutting. In 1926 the Executors of the Late Mrs CW Mitchell sold Jesmond Towers and by the 1930s land along the southern boundary was sold for private housing. Towers Avenue was built on the same line as the avenue and the lime trees were retained. The mature tree cover enhances the Conservation Area.

Created by the Filles de la Sagesse within the trees south of North Jesmond House (HER 10118). It is 20th century in date and is a reproduction of Lourdes. The statue of Mary has been relocated to Usher Hall {1}. Recorded 2013 by Archaeological Services Durham University. The grotto was covered in ivy when recorded. Kerbs, small concrete urns and crazy paving in the undergrowth show the extent of a sort of formal area at the front.

Shown on the Ordnance Survey first edition of 1858 and Thomas Oliver's plan of 1844 as a large sub square garden just east of North Jesmond House, divided into a geometric pattern and enclosed by a wall. Dr Charles Mitchell, who acquired Jesmond Towers in 1869, built stables (HER 14793), garden buildings and glasshouses around the edge and within the kitchen garden, thus reducing it in size. The 1910 Anderson & Garland sales catalogue lists warm and cold orchid houses, a melon house, a peach house, two vineries etc. All that now survives is one garden building (HER 14794), much altered and the high wall along what was Friday Fields Lane. The garden was levelled and grassed over in the 1980s. Recorded 2013 by Archaeological Services Durham University.

The only surviving element of the garden buildings which surrounded the kitchen garden (which is shown on Thomas Oliver's plan of 1844). The building is shown on the Ordnance Survey second edition of 1898. It has been much altered and includes a lot of 20th century machine made bricks. Felt roof. One pair of side hung doors. The garden buildings were built by Dr Charles Mitchell who acquired Jesmond Towers in 1869. At the east end is a square room with a fireplace in the gable wall and a door and window on the north side. Rows of coat hooks are the only other features. Recorded 2013 by Archaeological Services Durham University.

Irregular inverted L-shaped building to east of North Jesmond House. Now demolished. Enclosed the kitchen garden to the west, and the stable yard lay to the north. The stables and garden buildings were built for Dr Charles Mitchell who acquired Jesmond Towers in 1869.

Matthew Bank Farmhouse. 18th century, two storeys. Sandstone rubble walls with ashlar quoins. Pebble dashed on the north elevation. Sash windows (not original). The south elevation retains a hornless vertical sliding sash window. Inside there is a glazed screen, boarded over and wallpapered. The entrance was originally from the south, but now its from the north. Inside, the window reveals to the rear of the property are very deep, indicative of thick walls typical of the 1700s. Additionally original internal doors survive which are fairly small and again typical of the period. The staircase appears to be original. A fireplace survives in the parlour/sitting room. In 1821 Robert Warwick converted the farmstead into a mansion and added a lodge (West Cottage) to the west, but the majority of the buildings continued to function as a working farm. A group of three farm buildings and a U-shaped outbuilding to the north-east is shown on Thomas Oliver's plan of 1844. The site was acquired in 1917 by the Filles de la Sagesse and the buildings were altered. The farmhouse became the Father's house. {1} In the 1920s the house had separate accommodation on the two floors. Each floor had an outside toilet and a coal shed, all now demolished. Recorded 2013 by Archaeological Services Durham University.

Designed by Dunn Hansom & Fenwicke 1924 for the Filles de la Sagesse. Continues the style of the adjacent classrooms (HER 14790). Attractive part-timbered gable to Matthew Bank. Sash windows. Central round-arched window on first floor. This provided light for the main first floor lab, which has a polished wooden floor. Pebble dashed walls. Recorded 2013 by Archaeological Services Durham University.

Designed by Dunn Hansom & Fenwicke 1924 for the Filles de la Sagesse. Single storey. Part timbered, pebble dashed. Features folding sliding panelled and glazed partitions between the classrooms and a parquet floor. High ceilings. The classrooms are spacious and light. The slate roof has a bell cote/cupola. A report (August 2010) on the bell has been produced by Howard EJ Smith, bell advisor for the Newcastle Diocese. The bell was cast by Gillett and Johnston of Croydon in 1922. It is 16 inches in diameter and weighs between 70 and 90 pounds. It has no inscription on it but it has the date 1922 and decoration. Recorded 2013 by Archaeological Services Durham University.