The tomb is located in the south transept of St. Michael and All Angels Church. It is a freestone altar tomb with ornamental circular and square chainwork on the long sides, the Gilpin arms of a boar and oak tree on the west face. The inscription reads 'BERNARD GILPIN RECTOR HVIVS ECCLIOE OBIIT QVARTO DIE MARTII AN DOM 1583' {Bernard Gilpin, Rector of this Church, died on the 4th day of March in the year of Our Lord 1583}. The epitaph reads 'SEE HERE HIS DUST SHUT UP WHOSE GENEROUS MIND NO STOP BEFORE IN HONOUR'S PATH COULD FINDE. TRUTH, FAITH AND JUSTICE, AND A LOYALL HEART IN HIM SHOW'D NATURE, WHICH IN MOST IS ART'. Bernard Gilpin known as 'the Apostle of the North' was Houghton rector from 1558 to his death in 1583. He was knocked over by an ox in Durham Market Place. He became sick in February 1583 and died on 4 March. In 1884 (should actually have been 1883) a 300th anniversary clock was installed on the church.

This air raid shelter was built by Houghton Urban District Council, during World War Two along with many others, for those people who had not got an Anderson shelter. The shelter would have been used by the cemetery keeper and his family and anyone who happened to be in the cemetery during an air raid. Four bombs were dropped on Houghton Cut in July 1940. After the War the shelter was used for tool storage. Brick with a reinforced concrete roof. 2.7m x 2.08m in plan and 1.92m high. The roof is 16cm thick.

The sexton's lodge was built around 1873. A two storey limestone building with leaded windows, quoins, bargeboards and finial at the gable end facing the road. Later it was occupied by caretakers and groundsmen. In 1881 the parish sexton was William Reid and he lived in the lodge with his wife Mary and his 24 year old daughter Mary Jane, who was a teacher. Mary died in 1886 and is buried in the cemetery. In 1890 George W Brown was the sexton. In 1894 his five year old son William died and was buried in the cemetery. George died in 1895. His wife Jane and their children Margery and Thomas moved to Newbottle Street. In 1896 Edwin Place was sexton. His wife Margaret died in 1903 and was buried in the cemetery. Around 1926 Mr Reynolds and his wife lived in the lodge. In the 1930s Mr JW Scott, gravedigger and caretaker, lived in the lodge with his wife. In the 1940s Flem Ely was the cemetery caretaker. In 1942 the council employed the cemetery caretaker. Around 1950 Gordon English lived in the lodge but he was associated with the cemetery. In the 1950s a Mr and Mrs Green lived in the lodge with their children. The lodge was empty by 1964 and fell into ruin.

The lych gate was built in 1862. It was funded by Sir George Elliot Bart MP. The architect was a Mr Butterfield of London. The builder was a Mr Brookes of Houghton and he used stone from Usworth Quarry. The metal railings were by Mr Walker of Newcastle and the oak gates by Mr Henry of Durham. In the 1960s a car crashed from Houghton Cut into the lych gate and left it in ruins. The structure was restored in 2006-7 through grants from the Local Heritage Initiative and Sunderland City Council SIB Coalfields. On day four of the work a time capsule was found in the south pier of the archway. The corked glass jar contained pages of paper and coins dating to 1853, 1860 and 1861. Paper conservator Matt Parsons at Tyne and Wear Museums examined the soggy paper pages. These turned out to be a Handbook for the Clergy. On 29 August 2006 a new time capsule was placed in the south pier of the lych gate. On 8 September 2006 the cross was erected on the top of the rebuilt lych gate. In November 2006 small grants from Sunderland Housing's ASPIRE fund and AllChurches Trust were received. City of Sunderland Council Park's Department provided further money. In May 2007 the dwarf wall was rebuilt and railings installed. In February 2009 vandals broke off the cross.

Chimney constructed from squared sandstone blocks of uniform size (0.9m x 0.4m). 5.3m high and 1.8m square in plan. The top course of sandstone blocks overhung the rest of the chimney. The north-east elevation had evidence of plastering or rendering. Set back from the chimney to the west was a wall constructed from roughly coursed sandstone hewn into squared blocks. The south end of the wall had its top half built from brick. Within the wall was a blocked doorway. A plan of the works dating to 1837 shows a chimney within a larger structure and a substantial wall leading south from it. This wall formed the west elevation for the boiler shade and smith's shop and was the western boundary of Stephenson's Works. These structures are shown on nearly every plan since 1837. They were probably built between 1823 when R Stephenson and Co. took over the site and 1837. Between 1839 and 1846 the chimney was incorporated into a building, which was an erecting shop in 1846. Between 1930 and 1941 the chimney was in open ground again. The door was probably inserted into the wall after R Stephenson and Co moved to Darlington in 1903. The Goad Insurance Plan of 1930 shows the door between the building housing the chimney and the building to the west. The door was probably blocked up around 1930.

Pentecostal Church. Built in 1949 from bricks from air raid shelters. It was a replacement for the chapel on Union Street. The first pastor was Norman Humphrey. He named the church after the Valley of Eschol in Israel. Eshcol is described as a 'fruitfil valley' in the bible (Numbers chapter 13, verse 23 and chapter 32, verse 9 and Deuteronomy chapter 1 verse 24). There is a stone plaque on the church which reads Eshcol Church 1949. The green noticeboard and interior plaque spells it Eschol (the correct spelling).

Children's Home for orphans who had lost their parents in World War Two. 12 boys and 12 girls lived there in the 1940s. The boys and girls were looked after by a 'mother' and the home was run by a matron. Next to the children's home was a farm, a piggery, laundry and a hospital (the workhouse HER 6055). To the west was Stocksfield Terrace. To the south was the Lake (HER 7851). Presumably the home was demolished to make way for the A690 and Hillside Way.

Formerly the site of the Royal Oak Inn. This was demolished around 1936. Then two shops were built - Moors Stores and Jaconelli's Ice cream Parlour. The ice cream parlour, one of three in Houghton, was run by Mr Diamond Jaconelli and his family. Ice creams were also sold from the company's ice cream van. The shops were demolished (?1960s) and Woolworths was built on the site.

Riani's Gaiety Temperance Bar and Ice Cream Parlour. Allessandro and Columbo Riani, cousins from Castelnuovo di Garfagnana in Tuscany, arrived in Houghton in the early 1900s. There were several Italian families who had settled in the north-east. They set up an ice cream shop at 20 Sunderland Street. By 1909 they opened a second shop at 67 Newbottle Street. Their temperence bar capitalised on customers at the Gaiety Theatre opposite and from 1911 by the Empire Theatre. Allessandro served with the Italian army in the First World War and was killed in action. His name is included on Houghton war memorial. Columbo was killed during the Second World War. His wife Nelide continued to run the shop. The shop is two storeys. Ground floor has a central door with two large shop windows to either side. The shopfront included two fluted pilasters and rectangular panels below the windows. Above there is one off-centre window. Tiled roof. The shop had two rooms. The temperence bar had wooden booths, later replaced in vinyl, later still Formica tables. An arch led into the back room which had an open fire, a terrazzo floor and a huge mirror covering one wall. A three storey extension was added at the back on Boulby Street. A Roman coin was said to have been found when the foundations were dug. The extension was demolished in the 1960s. The shop closed in 1991. It has since been a florists, a sunbed tanning salon and Trends hairdressers. It is currently [2013] Vermillion Indian Cuisine.

Around 1907 two rooms above Frank Jones' chemist shop on Newbottle Street were used for Evangelical services. By 1912 the Houghton-le-Spring Evangelical Assembly hired a hall in Pottery Yard. Later they had this Gospel Hall on Mautland Street on the corner of George Street. Single storey (?rendered) with a pitched tiled roof. Gothic arched door in gable end. A second door in the east elevation along with four Gothic arched windows.