Wall and 2 tall stone piers, late C18. Sandstone ashlar, having plinth, over-
hanging cornice, and ball finial. Long wall attached to west and short to east;
tall; roughly squared coursed sandstone {1}. The tall piers used to have ball finials. The gates are timber.

House. C17 with C18 and later alterations. Roughly squared coursed sandstone;
roof of Welsh slate. 2 storeys, 3 bays. Central 6-panelled door, with oblong
fanlight, in brick and stone later porch having chamfered stone lintel and barge
boards; 2 C17 window openings, shown by joints and lintels blocked, having sashes
in broad frames inserted. 2 later end brick chimneys. Interior : at west ground
floor chimney breast, a wide flattened Tudor-arched stone lintel, with moulded
chamfer; deep splay to adjacent window.

House, now two separate dwellings; set back left entrance bay raised to two
storeys in C19. Brick, with Welsh slate roof. Main house : 2 storeys, 4 sash
windows with glazing bars, second from left being a round-headed staircase window;
curved one-storey porch in third bay from left has 2 curved windows and an open-
pedimented Tuscan doorcase to the 8-panelled door with round fanlight; roof
has gable stone coping, 2 end brick chimneys. Second house : 2 storeys, one
bay with door and doorcase similar to those of the main house but with flat
pilasters and decorated fanlight; roof, lower than that of the main house, has
stone gable coping and one end brick chimney. A continuous stone band runs
at ground floor level. Built about 1780, owned by Thomas Briggs, local landowner. Late C19 Mrs Robert Hutton Potts ived in this house and held the first Sunday Schools for the children of East Boldon.

Wall and gate piers. C18. Arising from front right of the house is a high brick
wall with 3 banded square piers and a garden entrance; this connects with a high
garden wall, extending the width of the garden, of roughly squared coursed
limestone rubble with a triple moulded brick coping. The entrance from the street
is formed by a low wall of brick with stone coping, continuing along through 3
square brick piers with plinths, in which are 2 ashlar gate piers with overhanging
cornices. Original iron gates and railings have been removed.

House. Supposedly 1738 (rainwater heads) for John Dagnia of South Shields, glass
manufacturer. Red brick (from Pelaw clays) with stone dressings; roof of plain tiles. Simple block plan. 2 storeys, 5 windows, including a central Venetian staircase window, all with broad moulded glazing bars, raised surrounds and projecting cills. Plinth, raised quoins; band and coping to parapet of parallel-ridged roof; 4 corniced end brick chimneys. Later porch off-centre; brick with raised quoins and raised surround to door with 6 fielded panels; flat roof. South front to garden has
scrolled pediment to central door, moulded architraves to all windows, large
oblong fanlights with radial decoration above two side doors; a C19 conservatory
encloses the 3 doors. Interior: staircase has dado rail and cornice and a
wrought-iron balustrade of c.1750 in a rococo design of leaves, seed-pods and
curved bars; the front porch has been inserted beneath this; doors to main rooms
in hall have corniced picture-panels; fluted pilasters support an elliptical arch
to the narrower section of hall opposite the stairs. Double-pile house meaning it is two rooms wide spanned by a double pitched roof with a central valley between. The house was set within a 15 acre pleasure garden (HER 12802) to the rear of Front Street. Only a fragment remains today as Coulthard Park. The house was sold after Dagnia's death and was eventually bought to by the Grey family in 1755. It was purchased from the Grey family's descendants by Bryan Abbs in 1813.

House. C18 incorporating parts of earlier house; 1890 reconstruction of tower.
Rendered with Welsh slate roof to house, flat roof to tower. L plan: cross gable
to street, tower in the angle. South elevation: 2 storeys, 3 windows, small
2-light over central door, upper right a square oriel with cornice, remainder
3-light mullioned; all openings with label moulds. Roof: 2 small gabled dormers
with barge-boards; gable coping; 2 end brick chimneys and one to cross gable;
crenellation to tower. Interior: C19 handrail to staircase with decorated tread
ends and one plain one turned baluster on each step; wide 3-centred arched stone
lintels to two fires on ground floor, chamfered with tongue stop and with 2-stepped
flat and tongue stop; another covered on ground floor; on first floor a chimney
piece with false 4-centred arch between tapered pilasters, fluted with heavily
moulded plinth and cornice, and the Chamber arms over; and some 2-panelled doors
with bolection-moulded architraves and panels over. The oldest building in Cleadon. Recorded by NAA and NEVAG in 2013-14 as part of the Cleadon Village Atlas Project. Building retains many features including a 16th century kitchen range, 17th century coat of arms fireplace and 17th-18th century doors.

Gates: C18, one modern copy. Wrought iron. Gate piers: 3 C18, stone rusticated and vermiculated, with projecting ornices and obelisk finials. Historical note: re-erected on this site at time Cleadon Tower was altered c.1890.

This park entrance was listed Grade II in 1985 with the following description:
'Park entrance. Dated 1876, ashlar sandstone and wrought iron. 4 piers to carriage and 2 pedestrian entrances and one pier to the west; tall, square, flat topped with plinths, friezes and projecting cornices; inscription con- tinuing along all friezes 'Given to the/people of Jarrow/by Sir Walter/and Lady James/September 1876'. Low curved wall from westernmost gate pier to fifth pier; snecked sandstone rubble, round coping. Carriage gates and 2 pedestrian gates: simple spiked standards; ball on each principal upright. Railings: outward-curved spiked standards between gates and fifth pier. Historical note: Sir Walter James, first Lord Northbourne (1816-1893) who was Liberal MP for Gateshead, married the daughter of Cuthbert Ellison of Hebburn. Minute books of local Board of Health record plans submitted by Mr George Spain, agent for Sir W and Lady James.'

Boundary wall to garden. C18. Red brick in English garden wall bond of 5 rows of stretchers and one of headers having 2 gateways. West gateway sandstone piers supporting moulded lintel and finials; east gateway renderedstone surround. West gateway contains a panelled door, east gateway a boarded door {1}. This ivy clad wall is eroded in places. It has flat stone copes, colour-matched mortar, a bumper stone to the corner, sone pyramidal corner caps and several gateways set in stone piers. The east gateway on Monkton Lane has a boarded timber door with ornate door furniture in a rendered stone surround. The west gateway has a later panelled door. The listed brick wall has an unlisted stone rubble return along the north footpath. This has a third gateway with a stone lintel. The fourth gate is the carriage entrance with double timber gates between moulded stone piers with ogee finials. The entrance has been widened {2}.

Parish church. 1868 by Johnson and Hicks. Coursed, squared rock-faced sandstone; roof of Welsh slate. 4-bay nave, north and south aisles and south porch, 2-bay chancel with south vestry and north organ loft, tower with stair turret at north-east of nave. Early English style. West elevation; 2 windows of 2 lights with cinquefoils. Clerestory has cinquefoil windows; lancets in the aisles. High-pitched roofs have gable stone copings and finials; tower has tall broach spire. Interior: nave arcades have round piers with plinths, clasping bands and acanthus capitals; and stiff leaf stops to hood moulds of arches. Furnishings: Norman-style front of Frosterley marble on pedestal and 4 columns; choir stalls, rood screen, lectern and altar Gothic-style woodwork of high quality.