Terrace of 29 houses c1865. Garden wall bond brick with painted stucco dressings. Welsh slate roof with brick chimneys and tall round yellow pots. Each house is of 2 storeys. Paired 4-panelled doors with plain overlights have architraves supporting entablature. Ground floor canted bay window. Gabled dormers with sashes.

Limestone rubble wall with brick coping, around graveyard to former chapel; lower wall to former chapel has ashlar coping and piers at the ends and at main gates. Wrought-iron gates and railings, 1827 with some repairs. Plaque attached to former chapel north wall “THIS OPEN SPACE FORMS PART OF THE CHURCHYARD OF THE PARISH OF ST PAUL’S RYHOPE AND WAS USED FOR BURIALS 1827 TO 1861”.

Shown on Ordnance Survey as Church of England School.
Church of England chapel of ease to Church of St. Michael, Bishopwearmouth, later infants’ school, then library, then a rent office. 1826-7; change of use to school c1870, library by 1984. Limestone rubble with ashlar dressings. Roof is of thick grey slates with ashlar bellcote and copings. One storey. One-window porch with lower rear extension. Main block has 2 wide renewed mullion and transom windows. Porch left return has pointed-arch window. Similar window in porch rear extension.
Interior – wide inner architrave to door from porch to inquiries counter. Some dado panelling in lobby to counter. Ceased use as chapel when new Church of St. Paul opened. The chapel was built by the local parishioners using stone from local quarries and maybe the beach. The adjoining burial ground was consecrated in 1832. The chapel has been converted into a family home [2009] and the graveyard is a private garden although the graves are still in-situ and the gravestones lie around the perimeter wall. In 1856 the chapel was described by Whellan as being dedicated to the Holy Trinity. 'A small but neat building, erected by subscription in 1826, and consists of a nave and small chancel. It is in the patronage of the Rector of Bishopwearmouth, and in the incumbency of the Rev. William Wilson. Here is a good parochial school, erected in 1826; it will accommodate about 50 scholars. James Liddle, teacher'.

Shown on Ordnance Survey as Gospel Hall.
House, later gospel hall, now rest home. Early C18 with C20 alterations. Coursed squared painted stone with plinth and C20 proud pointing, right return rendered. Roof concrete tiles with rendered chimneys. T-plan with rear stair wing. 2 storeys. Square projecting porch probably C20 with renewed door under painted name board. Porch roof has corner blocks flanking sunburst-patterned quasi-pediments. Projecting painted sills to windows with glazing bars. Outer windows are sashes. Rear stair wing has round-headed window.
Interior – ground floor divisions removed in front range. Dog-leg stair with fat turned urn and skittle balusters. Handrail has had moulding removed. The render has been removed.

Two houses. Mid-late C18. Coursed squared limestone with ashlar quoins and painted ashlar dressings; left return rendered. Front range roof is of Lakeland slate with brick chimneys and stone gable copings. Rear range roof is of French tiles. 2 storeys. Paired central renewed doors under pent hoods. C20 windows have wood mullions and transoms to 3-light window at left. Windows all have flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills. Tiled garden walls to front garden detract from the setting of the buildings.

War memorial c1920. White granite with dark granite panels. Four steps to stepped base of rusticated square column with pedimented cornice; concave sides to flat-topped coping. Labelled panels on each side have raised centres with bronze letters and decoration: laurel wreath and 1914 * 1918 on east panel, over LEST WE FORGET applied to white granite; plain cross on west panel, 1939 * 1945 on north panel {1}. The memorial was erected in 1930 and the Second World War panel added in 1988 {www.newmp.org.uk}.

Lamp standard memorial to Robert Thompson. C1912. Founder’s plaque JAS ALLAN SNR & SON LTD. ELMBANK FOUNDRY GLASGOW. Cast-iron. Fluted Corinthian column on base with low relief portrait panel, with inscription commemorating Robert Thompson JP, for 25 years as Chairman of the local committee, and the restoration of the green in 1912. Decorative frames on each side. Scroll brackets support tall finial and two arched arms from which hang bowl lamps. Fluted cast-iron posts with bud finials set about 4m north and south to prevent vehicles entering path.

Public house 1906 by HTD Hedley. Glazed brown and yellow tile ground floor, bright red brick of varying tones above. Sandstone ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. Returns white glazed brick. Gable to street has two storeys and attic. Exuberant Jacobean style. Ground floor has door flanking 3 windows, in arcade with Corinthian columns forming doorcases. Panelled plinth below windows has low-relief cartouches and foliage in spandrels. Entablature has frieze with Art Nouveau TRAM CAR INN in low-relief letters. Left door blocked. First floor mullion window with shaped gable with ball-and-cushion finial. Cast-iron drainpipes.

War memorial to Great War and World War Two. C1920. Ashlar and bronze. Octagonal stepped base to high panelled, corniced plinth and tall tapered chamfered cross with low relief cross and leaves. Long inscription on east face of base made up of individual bronze letters, some removed. Plaque on north to an airman, Pilot Officer Barton of 578 Squadron RAF (posthumous VC) who avoided Ryhope when crash landing. Large letters on west face of base PRO PATRIA GREAT WAR 1914-1918. Eight panels on plinth each have about 50 names from WW1 {1}. Unveiled October 1924. Vandalised in August 1990.

Gates, gate piers and railings to grammar school. C1925. Brick piers with painted concrete dressings. Wrought-iron gates with spiral finials. Spike-headed railings.