Built around 1893. Took over the smallholding of Blackburn Edge, which was demolished by 1891. William Bell, cowkeeper and miner at Marley Hill, lived here from 1910 to 1921. Attractive two storey stone house with two gables over the upper floor windows on the front elevation. Stone sills. New windows. Slate roof. Now subsumed into a housing estate of brick semis.

House overlooking the Black Burn. Saint Bean, a miller, lived here with his wife Mary in 1836. His family was from Morpeth. By 1851 he had become a flour dealer and shopkeeper. The family had a grocer's shop here until the 1880s. Their son Robert set up a grocer's shop at Hill Row in 1860. The house had gone by 1891, leaving only outbuildings and a greenhouse. Within a few years Sunniside House was built and took over the smallholding.

Elm Street West was built by Harry Kindred in 1925. Joseph and Hannah Bell moved into No. 8 'Belmont'. They built a Spiritualist Church with a timber frame and corrugated metal sheeting next to the house. Prior to this, the National Spiritualists held meetings in James Bell's house in Cuthbert Street, Marley Hill. Locals called the metal church 'Spuggies Hall'. In the 1950s Cuthy Bell, a winderman at Marley Hill Colliery and his wife Emma lived at No. 8. In the late 1960s the church was damaged by vandals and was dismantled.

The Sunniside branch of Burnopfield Co-op opened in July 1911. The grocery, drapery and butchery departments were in Nos. 1 and 2 Dewhurst Terrace, with the library, billiard and reading rooms above. No. 3 became the manager's house. In September 1021 new premises were opened at the top end of Dewhurst Terrace. Built by Messrs. A & R Davis of Burnopfield to designs by John Eltringham of Blackhill. The façade was faced with freestone from Heworth Burn Quarry. The grocery department measured 79 x 26 feet. The loading dock had a hoist to the flour and grain warehouse above. Flour and grain were sent via steel chutes to the packing room. There was a dry goods store-room next door. The drapery department was 38 x 24 feet with a warehouse at the rear. A fine staircase with stained glass windows led up to the millinery showroom and boot and shoe department. At the rear were stables, a harness room and a covered shed for vans (later used by Lowdon's buses). The store cost around £13,600. The store's abattoir was behind Fell Terrace at the top of Crookbank. The co-op closed in 1987. The building was destroyed by a fire on 12 March 1992. There is a new co-operative supermarket on the site today.

Built around 1902. Some were flats. In the 1950s Mrs McAvoy had a ladies' drapery shop at No. 18. It was an off-licence from the 1970s until 1993. Its now a curtain shop. No. 16 was a newsagents shop from the early 1920s until 1952. In 1921 PC Robert Shillaw lived at No. 14. It's now a barber's shop. In 1925 No. 13 became a fish and chip shop. Its now a Chinese takeaway. In 1921 No. 12 was a chemist's shop, run by Harry Ord. It has been a newsagents since 1952. It is now a post office as well. In 1925 No. 9 was a newsagents. After the War it became a General Dealers. It has been a chemist's shop since 1984.

In 1910 John Hutchinson of Ivy Cottage, Sunniside, bought land from Newcastle Breweries next to the Rising Sun and land from Mark Fenwick, Newcastle banker and William George Woods, Newcastle merchant, on which to build 30 'substantial dwelling houses'. The building contractor was Will Hockey of Whickham. Sun Street was built by the end of 1911. The houses sold for £200 each. Fosters of Felling supplied the bricks. Lumley Brick Company provided glazed bricks for the sculleries. Supples were brought by the Tanfield Railway to the siding on Pennyfine Road. The houses had wooden gutters. They were lit by gas. The kitchens had a range. The sculleries had a tap, a ceramic sink, a set pot with chimney flue. There was a coal shed and ash closet in the back yard. There were iron railings at the front of Sun Street but these were removed during the Second World War. Around 1923 John Cadwallender of No. 12 let out his front sitting room as a barber's shop to Mr Dunn, later Bob Grieveson and sold confectionary from a small counter. The barber's shop shut in the late 1960s. Margaret Cadwallender ran the sweet shop until 1965. No. 12 is now a beauty clinic. Mrs Bell let her front room at No. 8 to a dentist, whose main surgery was in Stanley, in the 1930s. No. 10 became a dental surgery in 1983. No. 9 was the house of the Sunniside policeman. The badge of Durham Constabulary was displayed above the door. Two new police houses were built after 1960 on the site of Lottie Brabban's Cottage (HER 16351). At No. 2 Nelly Rolf ran a fish and chip shop in her back kitchen in 1925.

In 1910 John Hutchinson of Ivy Cottage, Sunniside, bought land from Newcastle Breweries next to the Rising Sun and land from Mark Fenwick, Newcastle banker and William George Woods, Newcastle merchant, on which to build 30 'substantial dwelling houses'. The building contractor was Will Hockey of Whickham. Larch Street was built by the beginning of 1914. The houses sold for £210 each. Fosters of Felling supplied the bricks. Lumley Brick Company provided glazed bricks for the sculleries. Supples were brought by the Tanfield Railway to the siding on Pennyfine Road. The houses had wooden gutters. They were lit by gas. The kitchens had a range. The sculleries had a tap, a ceramic sink, a set pot with chimney flue. There was a coal shed and ash closet in the back yard.

In 1910 John Hutchinson of Ivy Cottage, Sunniside, bought land from Newcastle Breweries next to the Rising Sun and land from Mark Fenwick, Newcastle banker and William George Woods, Newcastle merchant, on which to build 30 'substantial dwelling houses'. The building contractor was Will Hockey of Whickham. The odd numbers of Elm Street were built by the end of 1911. The houses sold for £200 each. The even numbers were built in 1913. Fosters of Felling supplied the bricks. Lumley Brick Company provided glazed bricks for the sculleries. Supples were brought by the Tanfield Railway to the siding on Pennyfine Road. The houses had wooden gutters. They were lit by gas. The kitchens had a range. The sculleries had a tap, a ceramic sink, a set pot with chimney flue. There was a coal shed and ash closet in the back yard.

In 1910 John Hutchinson of Ivy Cottage, Sunniside, bought land from Newcastle Breweries next to the Rising Sun and land from Mark Fenwick, Newcastle banker and William George Woods, Newcastle merchant, on which to build 30 'substantial dwelling houses'. The building contractor was Will Hockey of Whickham. Beech Street was the first terrace to be built. The houses sold for £190 each. Fosters of Felling supplied the bricks. Lumley Brick Company provided glazed bricks for the sculleries. Supples were brought by the Tanfield Railway to the siding on Pennyfine Road. The houses had wooden gutters. They were lit by gas. The kitchens had a range. The sculleries had a tap, a ceramic sink, a set pot with chimney flue. There was a coal shed and ash closet in the back yard.

In 1841 William Wilson was the landlord at the Sun Inn. The Loyal William Hutt Lodge of the Manchester Unity of Oddfellows met here in 1842. In 1850 it was Will Rutherford, who worked at Marley Hill Colliery. In 1856 it was Will Surtees. In 1861 Dorothy Storey ran the inn. Her husband Robert was a miner. The family had come here from Wylam in the 1840s to work in the pit. The Storey family lived at The Hole in 1851. In 1866 the Sunniside Benefit Society (a women's insurance club) met at the Sun Inn. Each member paid 9d a month into a general fund which was used to pay for family funerals. The remainder at the end of the year was divided amongst the members. In 1873 Robert and Reuben Storey were the landlords. By 1879 James Davison was the landlord of the Rising Sun. His wife was Margaret Brabban, eldest daughter of Robert Storey. James Davison died in 1888 and Margaret and her son Will, a miner, ran the pub. In 1890 Newcastle Breweries Ltd took over the Rising Sun from John Barras and Co Ltd. The brewery also bought the house next door, which had been built around 1860 for Will Rutherford. In 1881 Robert Walton, a butcher, lived here. In 1890, Will Stott, another butcher. The White family lived here just before the First World War. The freehold land west of the house measured 1 acre 6 perches. Margaret died in 1907. Joseph Davison took over. In 1907 the Marley Hill and Sunniside Unionist Association met at the Rising Sun. Joseph died in 1915 aged 39. His wife Louisa continued. Her brother Charles Esson ran the Marquis of Granby further down the road. In 1934 Jimmy Davison was the landlord. In 1955 Arthur and Doris Scorer took over. Doris was there until 1983. The building is painted white and has a slate roof. New windows.