The southern section was originally part of a farmstead. It has been extended three times to the north, lastly by Dunn Hansom & Fenwicke 1922-5 for the Filles de la Sagesse. Single storey. It features a timbered ceiling with exposed trusses. The windows are timber sashes. The top light is bottom hung and opens inwards. {1} The south end of the building is a former stable, more recently used as a cloakroom. One of the original doors and a pitching loft can be seen in the east elevation both now blocked or altered. A 1922 plan marks this as part of a building used as a coach house and garage. Recorded 2013 by Archaeological Services Durham University.

Late Gothic Revival style chapel, with remnants of some Arts and Crafts interior encaustic floor tiling. Designed by Dunn Hansom & Fenwicke (who designed the Catholic cathedral in Newcastle) 1938 for the Filles de la Sagesse. The chapel steps down from the dominant convent building (HER 14787). Extremely attractive stone buttressed building, with a hexagonal projection to the southernmost elevation. Leaded windows. The balcony organ is of interest. It shares a principle wrought iron staircase with the adjoining convent. The ground floor of the chapel is double height with a first floor gallery. An entrance hall leads to a stairway. Highly decorative plasterwork, ceilings, and floor tiles. Recorded 2013 by Archaeological Services Durham University. During the recording process it was noted that the front and ends of the chapel altar had been covered with a panelled sheet of ply with a plain inset cross. When this was removed, the original recessed decorative front was revealed. The ends of the altar had plain panels under a cove. The recessed front had a wooden arcade of three pointed cusped arches, carried on pink and white marble colonettes with metal capitals and bases. Behind the arcade was a grid of stained oak, filled with square pressed metal panels embossed with floral motifs. There was a large gilt central roundel with an HIS monogram. At either end there were pink marble columns with metal capitals and bases. All of the metalwork was coloured gold and the woodwork is oak. The top of the altar had a fixed low shelf for candlesticks. This was removed to reveal the construction of the decorative altar front. Near the front of the top of the table, the altar stone lay loose in a recess. It was a dark stone marked with the traditional five Greek crosses.

Imposing continuation of the adjoining late Gothic Revival chapel. Designed by Dunn Hansom & Fenwicke (who designed the Catholic cathedral in Newcastle) 1938 for the Filles de la Sagesse. Sandstone with slate roof. Three storeys with basement. Elegant arrangement of windows. {1}. Recorded 2013 by Archaeological Services Durham University.Buildings appear to have been planned in the early 1920s but not constructed until 1928.

Early to mid 19th century farm outbuilding. Single storey. Sandstone. Later used as a school laundry. Mural of school children painted on gable end {1}. The laundry building is set well below the level of the convent (HER14787) and the old farm buildings. Inside the buildings show no sign of any other use other than the schools laundry. Probably last used in the mid 1970s. Recorded 2013 by Archaeological Services Durham University.

1814 incident in which a Danish galliot grounded on the Herd Sand on her arrival at Newcastle upon Tyne from Larvik, and was later recovered. Laden with deals and spars, she was a wooden sailing vessel. Crew saved.

1831 wreck of English collier which stranded on the Herd Sand while entering Shields in ballast; a wooden sailing vessel. Master: Osborn

1814 wreck of British cargo vessel which stranded on the Herd Sand on her arrival at Newcastle upon Tyne from Dundee with wheat; a wooden sailing vessel. Master: Webster

1784 wreck of British collier which stranded on the Herd Sand during a storm; a wooden sailing vessel. [the NMR has another Good Design, a craft, sinking in 1784 north of Sunderland, NMR NZ 45 NW 424. Presumably the same ship]. `Newcastle, Dec. 11, 1784...Sunday night about 9 o'clock a strong wind sprung up from the east, and about midnight the hurricane was most violent, attended with a very heavy fall of hail and show, which continued with unremitting fury till Tuesday noon, when it began to abate; but that night it blew again very hard, till Wednesday at noon, when the wind became moderate; but the snow continued at intervals till Thursday, when it fell very severe during the whole day, and continues yet at intervals… At sea it has been dreadful beyond description, all along the coast being strewed with wrecks, and vessels on ground, so that from every part we hear of nothing but distress; nor may we ever perhaps be able to get a perfect account of the loss of ships. The following is the best, which can be procured at present. The under has been sent from intelligencies, which may be depended upon...GOOD DESIGN, C Heron; ELIZABETH, Greenwell; ROBERT, A Scott, northward, lost...' {Newcastle Courant}. The Good Design was from Shields. Master: C Heron, Adamson Owner: Heron

Vessel stranded and lost at the entrance to the Tyne in wind conditions ESE force 7, 1872. Built: 1848
Master: W Gair
Crew: 6-7
Crew Lost: 2
Owner: J Herron, North Shields

1794 wreck of Scottish brig which stranded on the Herd Sand in bad weather, on her passage from Aberdeen; a wooden sailing vessel. Master: Brebner