Thornhill House lay south-west of Sunderland and was built by a self-made man in the shipping and timber trades, John Thornhill, once described as "a curious mixture of piety, public spirit, conceit and fraud". He moved from Coronation Street, having bought the farm and estate known as Plenty Hall in 1768. The house was subject to major C19 additions, probably by Sir James Laing who bought the house in 1867. It was demolished in the 1930s for housing. The lodge of c1810 remains.

Herrington Hall stood in Middle Herrington and its cellars were dated 1570. Despite this, the building in its final form probably dated from about 1795 when, after many generations, the Robinsons sold it to William Beckwith. Although retaining its ownership, General Beckwith soon moved to the Silksworth House Estate, inherited by his wife Priscilla. Later it was bought by the Earls of Durham and for most of C19 it was let to a succession of tenants. The hall was used as an auxiliary hospital during the First World War by the Joint War Committee (British Red Cross and the Order of St John of Jerusalem). The committee was ordered 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). Many hospitals were 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. The hospital was run by the 21st Durham VA Hospital Unit. In the C20 the Vaux family rented it. The last occupant was Mr Harry Bell, a local builder. In 1947 it was bought by the Miners Welfare Commission for use as a rehabilitation centre, but this never happened. The National Coal Board demolished it in 1957.

East Farmhouse sits behind a prominent stone boundary wall and a large garden. A large sandstone house with sash windows with exposed weight boxes, slate roof and stone watertabling. It has two well-mannered extensions - a small garage to the west in stone rubble and handmade brick, and a larger single-storey one with a hipped pitched slate roof. The ground floor of this offshot is stone, the first floor is in handmade brick in English garden wall bond. It includes a first floor stone window lintel dated 1865. The house has good conservation-style rooflights on the rear roof slope, but some rear replacement windows are fake sash top hung casements which visually jar against the finer original ones.

An old manor house with square-headed Gothic windows, stood near Manor House Farm between New Washington and Usworth Colliery. Demolished c.1910 as unfit for occupation. A drawing from an old print is the only record known.

Built in about 1750 by William Peareth (d.1775), Clerk of the Chamber and Alderman of Newcastle. The grounds were presided over by a large 3-storey canted bay containing the principal apartments. The entrance front was of seven bays, the central three of which were slightly projected to relieve the façade, an effect also achieved by the detailing around the front door and window above. The composition was completed by two storey pavilions. Generally known as Peareth Hall, perhaps to distinguish it from Little Usworth Hall, the house was the home of John Bailey, wine merchant in the late C19. It was demolished some time between 1895 and 1919. One wing survives (HER 7050).

A long rambling building of several different periods. It became the seat of the Williamson family after the destruction of Monkwearmouth Hall by fire in 1790. The oldest part, at the east end, had C17 windows with hood-moulds. Next was a long plain C18 wing of six bays. About 1800 a complicated nine-bay section was added, one bay projecting as a small wing, with a Venetian window. This part was remodelled by John Dobson in 1856, and again c.1880 for Sir Hedworth Williamson, in a neo-Baroque style. A cast iron balcony supported by caryatids was added. The windows were heightened, and higher still were oeil-de-boeuf windows and a balustrade with urns. In the 1930s when Chesterfield House, London was being broken up and demolished, the panelling and decorations of the French Room, c.1750 by Isaac Ware, were acquired and installed at Whitburn. They have since been installed at the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle. Whitburn Hall was burnt in 1978 and demolished in 1980. In the mid 19th century a gas works (HER 12458) was built by Sir Hedworth Williamson at Whitburn Bents. The gas works provided gas lighting for his family house Whitburn Hall (HER 8470). In 1864 Whitburn Hall became the first house in the area to have gas lighting. Some features of the gardens survive south of the hall.

The terminus of the 1713 remodelled Brockwell Way was at Lord Widdrington’s ‘Shipcoale Staiths’, described as four keelrooms at the west end of Stella staithrooms [Clavering et al, 60]. Shipcoal was good quality coal destined for the London market. A branch of the Brockwell Way, using part of the earlier Winlaton Way through Horsecrofts, led to two staiths in Blaydon called ‘the panncoal Staithroomes’. Pancoal was later called ‘duff’ or ‘slack’, and was used to fuel the extensive saltpans at North and South Shields.

Joseph Cowen & Co. used Blaydon Burn Staith, which actually lay in Stella Township. Bricks were put into open sided crates at the works and carried on flat wagons to the staith, until 1936 when the new bridge was built this involved crossing the main Blaydon to Ryton road at ‘Cowen’s Crossing’ (107). At the staith, fireclay goods were loaded onto the firm’s own boats and taken by river for delivery to local firms. In 1899 the loading involved eight men, who had a crane to help with the ‘lumps’ [Davidson 148].

No visible remains.

The bridge abutments are associated with the construction of the Hexham-Blaydon section of the Newcastle to Carlisle railway, completed in November 1834 and opened for traffic in March 1835 (Plate 104). The bridge was subsequently slightly widened toward the river, which appears to have happened before 1858. The riveted iron girder and platework deck postdates the widening, but cannot be firmly dated. The Sandstone ashlar bridge abutments and iron decking remain in use carrying the modern Newcastle - Carlisle line.

The eastern side of the Burn was revetted, and is marked as ‘Quay’ on the 1828 Enclosure plan, the lower part of the Burn being navigable to small craft until construction of the railway in 1834.

The Burn at this point is culverted and heavily overgrown, and surviving traces of the quay wall are concealed with the possible exception of a short section of sandstone rubble and firebrick walling close to the railway bridge.

Where the Blaydon Burn waggonway eventually crossed the Newcastle-Hexham road was known as Cowen’s Crossing, controlled manually (Figure 25). The approach to the crossing from the east, with the warning sign ‘Beware Engine’, is shown in a postcard of c.1920 (Blaydon in Old Picture postcards, 8). No visible remains.