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Whickham - Salisbury House
In its early days circa 1700 it was a Manor House and stood by itself outside the Village on the Fells.
The Village stopped at The Cross - where coal wains crossed the Front Street going down Coalway Lane to the Staiths on the Tyne. The Cross is where Lang Jack's monument now stands.
At the early part of the century locals knew it as Fiddlers Hall because every night an elderly gentleman played a violin at an upstairs window. Although the exact age of the house is not known due to incomplete deeds it is thought to be about 1653. It is now a four-bedroom house but it originally had six chimneys and flues. Various people have lived in the house including a dressmaker who made most of the wedding dresses for local weddings.