Lodge of municipal cemetery. c1858. Snecked limestone with ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings and chimneys. Gothic style, L-plan. One storey. Gabled porch with boarded door with elaborate cast-iron hinges. Right bay has stone mullion window. Left bay has sash windows.

Fountain. C1860. Yellow and red sandstone ashlar and red and grey granite. Signed J McMillan on marble plaque attached to east side of base. Carved Scotia-moulded plinth has red granite bowl projecting from cornice. Scroll carving. Female heads on all sides. Lion mask from which tap protrudes over basin. Round polished red granite shaft rises from acanthus leaves at base.

Chapel of municipal cemetery. C1858. Snecked limestone rubble with ashlar plinth and dressings. Welsh slate roof. Stone gable copings and wrought-iron cross and fleur-de-lys finials. Decorated style. Half-octagonal sanctuary with pointed roof. West porch has double door in pointed arched surround, under gable with fleur-de-lys finial. Tower has high octagonal belfry with arched louvred openings under tall stone spire.

Farmhouse and barn. Late C18, now house. Farmhouse of rubble limestone with irregular quoins and ashlar and brick dressings. Welsh slate roof. Brick chimneys. 2 storeys. Central renewed door under painted flat lintel and gabled hood. Renewed ground floor sashes with applied glazing bars. Barn to west of rubble limestone with irregular quoins and Welsh slate roof.

Villa, training college in 1922, part of Polytechnic from 1975. Now Sunderland High School. 1889-91 by William Milburn for William Adamson, trader in ships’ provisions and oil (and son of W. Adamson, shipbuilder). Eclectic style with C16 motifs in a mixture of half timber framing with plaster nogging and bright red brick with dark grey mortar and ashlar and terracotta dressings. Ashlar porch. Tiled roof with terracotta cresting, cast-iron finials and brick chimneys.
Exterior – two tall storeys with attics and turrets. Battlemented entrance tower with timber-framed top storey. Ashlar ground floor of tower has open Tudor arch. Steps up to porch. Side benches with carved decoration. Panelled door flanked by windows with etched and bevelled glass. Stone oriel above. Steeply-roofed cottage-like structure above.
Interior – much rich decoration. Half-glazed screen from entrance lobby has etched and bevelled glass with patterns of grasses, flowers and birds. Stair hall in Jacobean style. Panelled dado to open-well stair and gallery with metal figure of a C17 soldier as gas lampholder on principal newel. Frieze with low relief grotesques. Strapwork ceiling. Large mullioned and transomed stair window signed Atkinson Bros, Newcastle, has richly coloured panels with scenes of the arts and technology. 6-panelled doors throughout with elaborate brass escutcheons. Many with elaborate surrounds. Dining room (now common room) has oak panelling, ceiling with low relief panels of copper-coloured pressed paper. Chimney with richly-coloured tiles. Library (now committee room) has large arched chimney-piece with pictures of knights in armour in flanking fire windows. Drawing room has early C20 Rococo stucco ceiling decoration.

Parish church. 1910-11. By C Hodgson Fowler, with the help of anonymous gifts from Matilda Miller. Completed in 1930 with the addition of the south aisle, chancel, sanctuary and vestries to original designs, in matching materials, through gifts from George and Dorothy Short. Red brick with ashlar red sandstone dressings. Roof of plain tiles with red ridge tiles, stone gable copings and shingle roof on bellcote. Gothic style.
Interior – light and spacious. Plaster above high panelled wainscot. Sandstone arcades. Corbelled arch-braced roof trusses.
Side chapels have high-quality wood screens. Low choir screen with linenfold panelling, oak choir stalls, communion rail and pulpit. Painted reredos in sanctuary and Lady Chapel. Octagonal font of fine-grained red sandstone has low relief religious scenes and inscription saying it was a gift of the children in 1911. High quality painted glass in east and west windows {1}. 1910-11 by C. Hodgson Fowler. Red brick, with a stone interior; aisleless nave and aisled chancel. Dormers in the place of transepts. Louvred bell-turret with pyramidal cap. Original furnishings {2}.

War memorial in garden south of Christ Church. C1920 to men of the parish who died in the Great War 1914-1918. Ashlar. Octagonal plan. 3 steps to pedestal. Names of the dead inscribed on panels on sides. Tall tapered octagonal shaft with stone cross with richly carved foliate terminals {1}. "IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THE PARISH AND CONGREGATION OF CHRIST CHURCH WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTY IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918. THE MEN WERE KIND TO US AND DID NOT HURT US. THEY WERE A WALL UNTO US BOTH NIGHT AND DAY". {www.newmp.org.uk}.

Walls and gates to Christ Church. C1862 by James Murray. Snecked rock-faced sandstone walls and piers with ashlar coping and quoins. Cast and wrought iron railings and gates. Railings removed except at north door in The Cloisters.

Formerly Christ Church. Parish church. 1862-64. By James Murray of Coventry. Attached vestry and verger’s house c1877 by JC Cundall of Leamington. Snecked rock-faced limestone with ashlar plinth and dressings of sandstone. Roof of pale grey slate, perhaps Lakeland, with stone copings, stone spire. Style of c1300.
Interior – arcade has arches on round piers, scissor-braced roof. Carved stone reredos. Gothic stone pulpit with green marble shafts on 6 piers. Alabaster font in Romanesque style. High quality glass includes east window of 1864 by Morris & Co, all scenes except Sermon on the Mount by Morris & Burne Jones. West window and transepts have c1866 glass in bright primary colours. North aisle windows signed Alex Gibb & Co, 109 Bloomsbury, London and Atkinson Bros, Newcastle, C. Baguley, Newcastle. South aisle has fine glass including a window by Kempe, commemorating Charles Kitson d.1881.
The site was bought from Edward Backhouse of Ashburne House, who insisted that there should be a good spire. Among the wealthy men who contributed to the cost of the building was James Hartley, glassmaker. Pevsner - 1862-4 by James Murray of Coventry. Big, rock-faced edifice in the Geometrical style, with south-west spire. Interior with five-bay arcades running straight past the transepts. Circular piers with the typically High Victorian elaborately carved foliage capitals. Quite a different note is introduced by the stained glass of the east window by Morris & Co 1864. All the scenes (except the Sermon on the Mount) by Morris & Burne Jones. As in much early Morris glass the figure work, apart from the angels in the tracery, consists of smallish square panels with scenes beautifully drawn and in colours of a quite un-Victorian clarity: much red and brown. Added c.1877 by J.C Cundall of Leamington, a large vestry connected to the church by an arcade and a cottagey verger's house with a gabled wing and round tower, diminutive in scale.

Terrace walls and piers to Ashburne House. Probably c1860 for Backhouse Family. Ashlar. Low walls with chamfered coping enclose terrace to south of house. Steps lead to Backhouse Park (former grounds of house, now public park). At each angle of the wall there is a panelled square pier with plinth and cornice.
Subject of building recording in 2020, at the time of recording only one of the gate piers remained. The boundary walls were found to be not tied into the surviving. Parts of the walls and pier show both historic and more recent repair work. Some of the repair work had involved replacing damaged sections with modern brick work. Located to the north side of the gateway there is a lodge which is noted to be in a dilapidated state and for sale at the time of the survey.