The College of Medicine's rugby club is known officially as Medical RFC (or more commonly 'the Medicals'). Their ground dates back to the club's formation in 1898. The pavilion was built in 1936 to designs by Newcombe & Newcombe. The timber grandstand was built in 1933. It was restored and reopened in 1988. Timber grandstands are increasingly rare in Britain. This one is the third oldest stand in Tyne and Wear (the oldest being at Newcastle Racecourse, the second being at Ashbrooke, Sunderland). The club crest is shown on the back of the stand - a serpent entwined around a rod, a symbol representing the Greek god of medicine, Asclepius.

NEHL - Northumberland Cricket Club also relocated here after previously playing at Bath Road in Newcastle town centre. They moved here due to projected development in the 1890s, so Lord Armstrong offered the land with a ten year lease. A cricket ground and pavilion were constructed, Cricket is still played here alongside the Rugby, but the ground was considered remote considering the rurality and distance to Heaton railway station.