There was a pottery at Coxhoe from 1769 producing coarse[clarification needed] brown pots, and from 1851 it also began to make clay tobacco pipes.

Coxhoe also had its own gasworks, which produced gas from local coal; it was then sent around the village by a system of pipes.

The earlier medieval house on the site belonged to the Blakiston Family from c.1400 to 1600, and afterwards to the Kennets and the Earls of Seaforth.

John Burdon, responsible for rebuilding the house, also created the landscape gardens at Hardwick Hall, near Sedgefield.

The hall was condemned as unsafe by the National Coal Board and demolished in 1956, leaving the ground plan and service yard still visible.