Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition of 1856. On 9th March 1911 the plans for building new premises were agreed and a new pub was built shortly afterwards. On February 23rd 1916 the opening night of the King George V Lodge No.2115 of Freemasons was held in this pub. The meetings were held here from 1916 until 1928 and were then transferred to the Dun Cow, Willington Quay. Exact date of closure unknown. Pub demolished Nov 2007.

Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition of 1856.

Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition of 1856. Existed in 1814 the tenant being Mr Timothy Pollock and the rent being £35. First known as the Half-way House Farm. The Rose Inn was a coaching stop on the turnpike road between Newcastle and North Shields. On 7th Jan 1828 a Woman's Friendly Society was formed which met at the Rose Inn. The same society were still meeting 100 years later. The Roman Catholics of Wallsend under Rev Father Riley began a mission and until they built their own church they used the Rose Inn between Oct 1865 and May 1866. On Feb 6th 1913 the original Rose Inn closed and the licence was transferred to a new building retaining the same name at the bottom of the hill (HER 9458). The original building was demolished c.1915.

Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition of 1856.

Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition of 1856 in extensive grounds.

Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition of 1856. There is a small quarry pit in the garden.

Around 1849 Mr Robert Hood Haggie and Joseph Procter of Willington Ropeworks (HER 1179) opened a school under the British and Foreign School Society, for the children of their employees. The school room had a large raised preaching platform (Mr Haggie undertook bible classes and temperence mission work at Willington Mission Room) and desk at the south end and a gallery at the north end. Mr Haggie paid for the coals for heating and Mr Procter, the books and £12 towards the teacher's salary. There were up to 40 scholars. The school house later became a gatehouse office for the ropery.

Washington Potts of Willington Ropeworks (HER 1179) built Low Willington Villa. It later became the family home of Robert Hood Haggie, then Arthur J. Haggie and his wife Kate Stewart, then Frank Dean (works manager of the ropeworks from 1903) and his wife Rosa. In 1912 when the Deans moved to Jesmond, spacious dining rooms for the ropery workers were built onto the villa.

Baillie, in his Impartial History of Newcastle, describes a Mr Dewar's (born 1758) garden of under two acres, where visitors were offered tea, cider and delicious fruits of the season. He had bought the land with Messrs Anderson and Atkinson in 1805 from a J.B. Coulson. Mr Dewar died in 1818, but his wife Mary continued the fruit garden business. In 1822 she was granted an alehouse cognizance for the Rosetree in Jesmond. Indeed, Thomas Oliver's directory of 1833/4 lists Mary Dewar as "gardener and victualer of the Rosetree, Jesmond". The 1851 census lists James Dewar as occupier of the Grapes Inn and public gardens. In 1864 James Robert Dewar sold the Grapes Inn and nursery gardens to Collingwood Forster Jackson who built Orchard House and Fenwick Terrace on the site. "A Peep at Newcastle in the 50s" says that the Grapes Inn was in the middle of Fenwick Terrace. Opposite the inn were several small huts and sheds with trestle tables and clay ends for quoits. The inn sold nut brown ale and strawberries and cream with tea. Mr Dewar provided private houses with preserving fruit and had a seed shop in Grey Street {based on research by Mr Stan Livingstone}.

What appears to be a square cropmark with three ditches around it. Selkirk suggests that it could be a Roman fort or signal station. He further suggests that the path which runs from the cropmark to Hillcrest stables (NZ 2161 5801 to NZ 2209 5836) could be the course of a Roman road, presumably on the basis that it is straight. The site lies 1km south of Washingwells Fort. The cropmark could equally be a late prehistoric or Romano-British enclosure. There was a cairn in this vicinity (HER 11237). There was also mining activity (HER 3753).