The building of the Pandon Dene Bridge (HER 5768) opened up new land for building. John Dobson designed villas on the west side of the Dene at Picton Place (see HER 1875) and on the east on either side of New Bridge Street semi-detached villas and terraced houses of some architectural quality were built. Ridley Villas, a row of 18 grand houses, were built on land leased from Sir Matthew White Ridley. They probably date from 1823 when Dobson was advertising sites for villas on the north side of New Bridge Street. They may be to Dobson's design. These, along with Dobson's own house, are the sole survivors of this rash of development. A plan of 1854 survives in the Archives for a kitchen extension to the rear of No. 5 Ridley Villas belonging to Mr Sewell. Later plans from 1866 to 1951 catalogue a series of alterations to these properties including the construction of bay windows and alterations to buildings in the gardens (Back Ridley Villas). The plans show a gradual change in use of some of these properties from residential with gardens to commercial with the addition of stores, stables, sheds and warehouses. No. 18 Ridley Villas has a basement - it is assumed that the other properties were cellared as well. By the late C19 Ridley Villas was increasingly used as business premises as the well-to-do moved out to the suburbs. A TB Hospital was opened in Nos. 1 and 2 Ridley Villas in 1913. In its first year the hospital dealt with 958 cases. There were 529 deaths from TB that year. By 1963 with around 2140 patients, there were only 13 deaths. As TB declined, the hospital came to be used as a general medical unit until its closure in 1972. In 1927 plans by Newcombe and Newcombe were approved to convert two of the houses into the Newcastle Dispensary, which had outgrown its purpose-built building in Nelson Street. The Dispensary was an outpatient service for the poor. Eventually it was absorbed into the NHS. Seven villas (101- 113 New Bridge Street) were demolished in 2010 ahead of the construction of new student accommodation. The original 97 and 99 (NBS) were demolished in the earlier 20th century. An historic buildings recording took place prior to demolition. The recording also incorporated 101 & 109 Back New Bridge Street {6}. A watching brief was also maintained during groundworks at the site in February 2010. This revealed a well underlying the party wall between 113 and 115 NBS (HER 16584). Archaeological evaluation on the site also in 2010 revealed that the site appeared to have been undeveloped prior to the construction of Ridley Villas.

The New Bridge was built over Pandon Dene in 1812, by John Reed, mason, designed by John Stokoe, after which time the toll road from Newcastle to North Shields was completed (the first act for the construction of the North Shields Turnpike was actually in 1747). MacKenzie described it as a strong handsome structure of three arches, 30ft in breadth. Oliver's 1830 map shows a toll bar at the junction of New Bridge Street and Pleasant Row. In 1837 the Pandon south of the New Bridge was culverted by Ellison and Buddle and the Dene partially backfilled. The Dene wasn't backfilled to the north of the bridge until the 1850s, at which time demolition of the bridge was considered. However the bridge was still in place in 1885 described only as "a roadway with almost level ground on each side". Road widening was considered by the Council in 1890 and the north side of the bridge was said to have been set back. It is possible that some parts of the structure survived until the Central Motorway was built in the early 1970s. In 1973 it was reported that during works on the new motorway, an abutment of the bridge was found. The remains appeared to be the north side of the west abutment. The south side had already been removed by contractors. The structure that was left was 3 feet thick and was constructed of large blocks of stone with a rubble fill. The space between the north and south walls of the abutment appeared to have been filled with clay. The abutment was buried under 10 feet of rubble and ashes. Eastward the wall had been cut away. Remains of a roadway or footpath with a large iron gas pipe lay on top of the wall. At the base of the cut away east side, a wedge-shaped block of ashlar was found. This was on the springing of the arch.

A single ropewalk is shown running along the northern edge of the Shieldfield (HER 5471) on Corbridge's map of 1723 and Bourne's map of 1736. Thompson's map of 1746 shows two open-air ropewalks. No ropewalks are shown on Hutton's map of 1770.

Brickfield shown on 1st edition Ordnance Survey map.

Clay pit shown on 1st edition Ordnance Survey map.

Formal garden for the new Backworth Hall, built in 1780 (HER 5167). Shown on the Tithe Award map of 1844 as gardens belonging to the Duke of Northumberland. The 1st edition Ordnance Survey map shows the walled garden with a complex of paths with trees in-between and several small buildings along the southern and eastern boundary walls.

Former engineering workshop (South Shore Engineering Works) of C19 date. May originally have been built as part of the New Woolwich Works (HER 4400). Lower sections of the walls are of cut sandstone to a height of 2m. Above this are red and yellow bricks in English Garden Wall. Corrugated iron roof with raised portion of the roof, or lantern, extending the full length of the ridge. Arched entranceway. Arched and round windows. Toilet extension added 1917. A single storey warehouse was built in 1961 and a two storey office extension was added in 1962. The interior retains three cast iron pillars supporting a large extraction or ventilation pipe and an observation or control platform. A modern gantry with steel tracks runs along the full width of the building. Not shown on Oliver's map of 1830, but is shown on first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1862 and Reid's map of 1882. On the second edition Ordnance Survey it is known as South Shore Engineering Works. By 1940 it was part of the Kelvin Engineering Works. Demolished 2005.

Disused hotel and public house, built between 1895-1898. Two-storeys, painted brick with a slate roof. Old stone wall to the west.

Buildings are shown on this site on Bell's Plan of Newcastle of 1847. The Ordnance Survey first edition shows West Denton Hall as a rectangular building with central courtyard and garden to the south and woodlands and fields surrounding. Buildings labelled as The Panniers are situated on the opposite bank of the dene and there is a small building and terrace of houses shown as Red Row to the southwest. By 1897 whilst the main core of the Hall is retained, the rest of the complex had been demolished. There are glasshouses in the gardens. Red Row and The Panniers have been demolished. A new lodge had been built at the entrance to the grounds {1}. Local list entry - A house has been present on the site of West Denton Hall since at least 1628, when the site was under the ownership of the Errington family who also owned East Denton Hall and much land in the area. From the early nineteenth century the site was owned by the Lamb family and in 1948 the Hall was taken over by the Catholic Rescue Society, and homeless children were housed and cared for by the Sisters of Charity. The two storey stone hall has projecting bays at either end of the entrance front, and a projecting one storey flat roofed porch with arches to the front and either side. The rear of the hall has a pre-1920 ground floor extension which is segmental in shape and has a central door and two floor length windows at either side and there are six sash windows at first floor level.
Despite best efforts, information on the age or precise builder of West Denton Hall could not be found.

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