Roman Catholic presbytery. 1893-5 by C. Walker of Newcastle. Snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings and fleur-de-lys finials. Style of a C17 manor house. 2 storeys. Central low porch with slit window in gable peak. Sash windows in one-storey porch. Other windows mullioned. Two corniced ashlar chimneys.

Built by Charles Walker of Newcastle in 1893-5. Roman Catholic parish church. Rock-faced sandstone with ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof. Interior - barrel roof on shafted brackets with struts. Ornate altar and arcaded sanctuary with niches. Pulpit of alabaster on Frosterley marble base by Emley of Newcastle. Stone and marble communion rail. Historical note - the first St. Patrick's RC Church was built in 1841 to a design by John Dobson at Felling Shore. Work started on a new church on Felling High Street in 1873, but the partly finished church was destroyed by fire in 1877. Walker's church cost over £14,000. The old church at Felling Shore became an engine shed for colliery locomotives. Extensively re-ordered in 2005. Notable features include Frosterly marble and Caen stone. Magnificent late Victorian church of cathedral-like proportions.

St John's School for Catholic children was built in January 1864. The first headmistress was a Miss Boyle. The upper floor was used as a chapel (because the old church by John Dobson had been demolished) until the new church (HER 7078) was built in 1893 - indeed the building is listed as St. John's Church in the 1871 census. When the new church was finished in 1895, both floors of the school were used as classrooms. There were over 400 pupils. The upper floor of the school had been removed by 1950, along with its gabled roof and arched windows on the west wall. Recorded in 2004 - a stone built rectangular building with five doorways, steps to those on the south elevation. The western door on the northern elevation has an elaborate ashlar surround with arch and large keystone. Mullion and transomed windows. Inside, eight cast iron pillars with octagonal bases and decorated tops survive. All windows have been blocked. The attractive yard walls have cross-headed railings and substantial gate piers. The building's last use was a boxing gym.

The Sunderland Echo was founded in 1873 by Samuel Storey and used offices on Press Lane. By 1876 the Echo had offices on Bridge Street and had built machine and composing rooms on West Wear Street. In 1890 the Sunderland Post was also using the West Wear Street building. The western end of this red brick building has an elaborate façade with sandstone arches and columns and a sandstone plaque with the date 1890, topped with a pinnacle, decorative stonework and stone cladding and attractive arch-headed fenestration. "The Sunderland Echo" is painted onto the west and south elevations. Ground floor was the store room for oil, ink and reels and a machine room and boiler room. Printing probably took place on the first floor. Second floor housed a kitchen and canteen and offices. The original building was extended between 1897 and 1905. In the 1960s a concrete and glass building was added to the eastern end. In 1976 the Echo vacated the building and moved to new premises at Pennywell.

A covered trench shelter was recorded during an archaeological evaluation at St. Lawrence Ropery (HER 5142). The shelter was 13.6m in length, 1.60m in width and 2m in height. It was built of pre-fabricated concrete panels, which self-linked together at the base, sides and roof, to form a rectangular concrete structure. It was accessed by an entrance at its northern-western end, which linked to the interior of the ropery building or to the footpath.

Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition map of 1860. Still there in 1940.

Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition map of 1860. Still there in 1940.

By the end of the nineteenth century the southern end of Bath Lane had been transformed by the commercial buildings along its length. No. 47 was built as a workshop and dwelling house for Mr. A. Gibson of Oxnam Crescent in Spital Tongues. The building plans were drawn up on 7th February 1895 by the architects Liddle and Brown. On the ground floor there were two doorways - the first led into a porch and then into the front office and rear store room. An arched entrance was situated at the extreme south end of the building leading to an open yard, toilet and blacksmiths shop. The second doorway led upstairs to the living area on the first floor. There was a kitchen and sitting room with fireplaces, and a bedroom, scullery and toilet to the rear. On the second floor there were four rooms, two with fireplaces. The Goad Insurance Plan of 1896 shows No. 47 Bath Lane with a blacksmith shop to the rear. By 1930 the smithy had been converted to stables. In the late C20 the building was used as a wholesale wine retailer before becoming a printworks and marketing suites.

A watching brief during the restoration of Charlotte Square revealed the partially demolished remains of a Second World War air raid shelter. It was typical of the Covered Trench Shelter design of 1939 - constructed of prefabricated concrete panels which linked together at the base, sides and roof, to form a concrete oblong box. It was accessed by a flight of steps from the surface.

This ROC monitoring post was built in 1960. The choice of site is likely to have been related to topography, security and ease of purchase of the land, rather than due to proximity to the Regional War Room (HER 5035). These posts were intended to be manned during times of tension, to monitor the location and power of nuclear detonations and the progress of radioactive fallout, so that the population could be warned, and Civil Defence measures effectively managed. They operated in clusters of three posts linked by telephone and radio cables, meaning that readings could triangulated with independence from peace-time telephone system. The posts were manned by observers. A bunk-bed and basic toilet facilities were provided. Food had to be prepared in the post. No air filtration system was installed. Half of the ROC posts, including Kenton, were abandoned after the 1968 defence cuts. Some however remained in use until 1991 when the ROC was finally disbanded. The Kenton example is visible above ground as a low grassy mound approximately 10m long by 4m wide by 1m high. The main entrance, main ventilator shaft and two masts for the bomb-power and fall-out monitoring devices are visible. The entrance is a concrete shaft 1m square and 0.85m high with a counterweighted steel hatch. On the eastern side of the entrance shaft is a 0.55m square mount for a warning siren. The ventilator is also of concrete, measuring 0.65m square and 0.85m high. The openings on the north and south sides are covered with louvred timber shutters. The two sensor masts are 0.7m tall. The interior is accessed by a ladder attached to the west wall of the entrance shaft. At the base of the shaft is a shallow sump covered by a metal grating to allow water to be pumped out via the hand pump fixed to the north wall. On the eastern side of the entrance shaft is a small room measuring 0.95m x 0.85m, which once held an elsan toilet. The main room measures 4.5m x 2.26m and contained a table and cupboard. Directly above the table was a mount for the bomb-power indicator, used to calculate the power and bearing of a nuclear detonation. The connections for a telephone are still attached to this wall. The south wall has a small opening 1.5m from floor level, covered with a sliding steel plate, which opens into a shaft into the main ventilator. The interior is painted light grey. A battery charging log and cardboard dial were recovered from the post.