Built in 1913 (surely one of the earliest surviving purpose-built cinemas) in red brick with a Neo-Byzantine tower. It is now a boarded-up former bingo hall with a garish modern canopy {1}. This was the last cinema to be built in Gateshead before the First World War. The Coatsworth was designed by J. Landell Nicholson. The main entrance was on Bewick Road with a foyer across the width of the building. The stairs led via a mezzanine floor and waiting area to the 503 seat circle. On the ground floor there were 510 seats in the pit and 330 seats in the stalls. There was an orchestra pit and a stage. The paintwork was painted in 'delicate blues and cream'. With 1343 seats this was Gateshead's second largest pre-war cinema. It also had a board room for director's meetings. In 1914 railings and turnstiles were built to control the queues for the pit entrance. The Coatsworth opened on 8th December 1913. In 1919 Thomas D. Armstrong took it over and in 1920 built a new operating box and rewind room and a 4 stroey extension to the east by J. Oswald with waiting rooms, a store room and projection room. In 1926 an organ was installed, and remained in place until 1932. The cinema was reseated and redecorated in August 1937. It had underground air raid shelters. The Coatsworth closed as a cinema on 30th July 1960. It reopened as a bingo hall in September 1962 {2}.

This group of closely-spaced tall red brick semi-detached houses was built about 1900. They have full-height bays and prominent dormers. The houses were built in the gardens of Claremont Place (HER 8304).

Between Alexandra Road and Coatsworth Road are two terraces facing each other across Bewick Road. The northern terrace was built in the 1860s and the southern terrace around 1885-90. Both terraces are two-storey with ground floor bay windows. The southern terrace is closer to the road and shows a much greater use and elaboration of stone in its bays, cornices, window surrounds, doorcases and string courses.

Half-timbered post office, rebuilt in the 1920s.

Austere red brick terraces in a narrow street, built in the 1890s in the garden of Woodbine Villa (HER 7638). The few few houses have been converted into the Wutan Kungfu Institute and have lost most of their original detail.

Sedgewick Place was amongst the earliest terraces built in Bensham from 1824. It is similar to Claremont Place (HER 8304 and 7422) but has been altered to form shops on Coatsworth Road.

Designated on 3rd April 1987. The Conservation Area comprises ten nineteenth century terraces which represent several phases of growth. With imposing terraces, culs-de-sac and substantial gardens, Coastsworth displays a more spacious layout and more varied pattern than the monotonous gridiron development which grew up arround it. The Town Fields of Gateshead at Bensham were divided among the borough-holders in 1818 and sold off piecemeal for building. Claremont Place was built between 1819 and 1824. By the late 1850s Sedgewick Place, Woodbine Terrace and parts of Villa Place and Woodbine Place had been added, along with Woodbine Cottage (now Villa). This development was surrounded by fields and was quite separate from the town of Gateshead. It provided a rural retreat for the employing class. Union Lane (now Coatsworth Road) gave access from Bensham Road to the houses but petered out into a field track at the end of Sedgewick Place. The Shipcote Estate was developed from the 1860s onwards on a more regular grid of streets. The new Bewick Road which provided a direct route across the suburb, was built up with terraces and Christ Church. Oxford and Cambridge Terraces were built around 1890 to 1902, for the middle-classes. By 1900 a dense grid of small terraced houses and Tyneside flats spread across the rest of Bensham. A tramway was laid along Coatsworth Road, which had become a shopping street as a result of infill along its frontages and the conversion of end-terrace houses. Early in the C20 the Honeysuckle Hotel was rebuilt and a post office. A cinema was built in Bewick Road. In this century the general area has become predominantly working-class and increasingly deprived, with houses subdivided into flats for rent. However the larger houses around Bewick Road have remained as family houses. The Hasidic Jewish community has grown in the area. A terrace of large houses in Bewick Road has been converted for use by two Jewish colleges {1}.

Two schools were built by 1919. These have been demolished.

Designated on 7th January 1977. A small and compact Conservation Area consisting of two mid nineteenth century formal terraces, a large prominent Roman Catholic Church and presbytery and a modern church hall. When built, this area was suburban, being peripheral to the built-up area of the town and some distance away from the industrial riverside. The site has solid rock just below the surface and is well drained. Walker Terrace (HER 8306) was built 1842-3. Regent Street (HER 8298) was built in 1852-62. Queen's Terrace, which faced Regent Terrace, has been demolished. The church of St. Joseph (HER 8277), linked presbytery and schools (demolished) were built in 1859. The church hall is a modern brown building and is flat roofed with steel-framed vertical slit windows. It is out of keeping with the Conservation Area.

Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition (1850).