It consists of four small houses, a Premier Inn hotel and Beefeater restaurant, an independently operated Esso petrol station under the name "Peggy White's Ltd", and a garden centre.

It also has a large industrial park which is a regional base for several multinational companies including Terex[1] and Honeywell,[2] as well as the Newhouse Research Site and the Scottish distribution centre for the Co-operative Food Group.

It was also a historic crossing place for north–south and east–west traffic, being on the two former trunk routes of the A8 (between Glasgow and Edinburgh) and the A73 (from Cumbernauld and the north of Scotland to Carlisle and into England).

This cottage still exists on Legbrannock Avenue leading to Newarthill, now surrounded by the Newhouse Industrial Estate.

The Newhouse Hotel was originally built in the 1930s as a public house and motel in a single building.