Subscription library with attached window guards and balcony. 1878. By Austin, Johnson and Hicks, as part of subscription library. Ashlar with cast - iron window guards and balcony; light grey slate roof. Baroque palazzo style. 3 storeys, 8 windows. Rusticated ground floor, now altered, with double panelled door in third bay in round - headed opening under bracketed segmental hood, the central bracket with draped escutcheon. Giant Corinthian pilasters define bays above. Plain sashes on upper floors have keyed architraves, those on the second floor with segmental heads and projecting aproned sills. Iron guards link pilaster basews and, in central bay of 5 - bay bank at right, project as balcony. Top enblature has pulvinated frieze and modillioned cornice. Side consoles to 7 segmental - headed dormers with keyed architraves to plain sashes. Tall corniced ridge chimneys. Designed as part of a larger project, including the Woods Bank at No. 53 (qv), in which this was the front range of the subscription library. (Corfe T: The Buildings of Sunderland 1814 - 1914.: Newcastle upon Tyne: 1983-: 11; Milburn GE and Miller ST: Sunderland River, Town and People: Sunderland: 1988-: 160).

A bank constructed between 1875 and 1878 by Austin and Robert James Johnson (of Newcastle) for Wood's Bank in a Baroque palazzo style from local coal measure sandstone. Ashlar with cast - iron balconies; slate roof. 3 storeys ant attics, 5 x 3 windows. Renewed doors and semi - circular overlights in end bays of rusticated ground floor with architraves on impost strings of keyed round - headed openings; renewed round - headed windows in other bays with recessed panelled aprons. Giant Corinthian order above, square pilasters at corners and attached round columns to intermediate bays, linked by elaborate first - floor cast - iron sashes with glazing bars, keys rising to floor string between pilasters and to elliptical - headed second - floor sashes on moulded sills and aprons. Big top enblature with pulvinated frieze and modillioned cornice. Hipped roof has side consoles to oeils de boeud dormers in central and end bays and taller segment headed dormers between. Right return has 3 bays in similar style without doors and with 3 segment headed dormers, and 4 set - back bays with rusticated ground floor having doors in outer bays and triple - keyed ground floor tripartite windows; plainer treatment to upper floors with cornices, pediments and keyed architraves to various windows. An important corner building, and designed for Woods Bank as the key to a larger scheme, including the Subscription Library at No. 52 (qv), which was intended to fill a complete block. (Corfe T: The Buildings of Sunderland 1814 - 1914.: Newcastle upon Tyne: 1983 - 21; Milburn GE and Miller ST: Sunderland River, Town and People: Sunderland: 1988 - : 160). The building is currently used as a Barclays Bank.

Corder and Sydenham house located at no 21 and 22 Fawcett Street. The houses were designed by Frank Caws between 1889 and 1891 and built by David and John Rankin and JC Edwards (terracotta) for Alexander Corder a draper. The buildings replaced fire-damaged premises. Corder house was used as a shop and Sydenham House was used as Meng’s Restaurant. The buildings are constructed in a Gothic and Baroque style. Brick and terracotta; roof plain tiles; concrete fireproof flooring. Eclectic mixture of Gothic and Baroque/Flemish styles. No. 21 at left 3 storeys, 6 windows under 2 gables with attics; No. 22 at right 3 storeys, 3 windows with attic in central gable. Both with altered shop fronts. No. 21 has ground - floor panelled fascia and cusped arcaded frieze with roll - moulded coping. Projecting canted bays on arcaded first floor are flanked by narrow lights with Gothic capitals to pilasters and elaborate heads over central lights of canted bays; all with paired, mullioned cusped over lights and drip string. Second - floor central balustraded balcony has panels with Gothic letters; curvilinear windows with paired arcaded top lights have shallow canted centres under balustraded attic balconies. Elliptical - headed cusped attic arches to recessed windows are flanked by scrolls and pilasters which rise to high shaped gables with terracotta patterns, central oval lights, and raised segmental pediments. Dates 1856 and 1890 in outer panels at eaves level. Steeply pitched roof has central lantern with Gothic lights and high conical roof. No. 22 at right has moulded ground floor fascia and frieze below full - width balcony with stone balustrade. First - floor windows, tripartite in centre and paired in outer bays, have upper glazing bars in curvilinear heads below swags and second - floor balcony which projects in centre over panelled pilasters defining first floor central bay. Square - headed second floor lights have raised arches with pendants, the central bay defined by plain pilasters with scrolled pediment heads, under panelled band and outer scrolled pediments. Central attic gable has raised segmental pediment over eclectic tracery of wide arched light containing smaller cusped lights. Steeply pitched roof has end chimney.
Frank Caws' own office was in these buildings {1}. Two three-storeyed buildings with unusually fine and elaborate terracotta facades {2}. Two 3-storey buildings with elaborate red terracotta facades. Individually designed by same architect, but possessing overall unity of character. No. 21 ("Corders", built 1889) is the more elaborate with complex fenestration, including two balustraded bays rising into 2-storeyed attic dormers which flank a central dormer with spire in a steep tiled roof. No. 22 ("Sydenham House", built 1891) consists of 3 principal bays, the flanking bays of two lights, each pedimented, and the central bay of 3 lights, rising into a Dutch gabled attic dormer containing central light with gothic tracery. Architect Frank Caws, terracotta maker J.C. Edwards, David and John Ranken, contractors) {3}.

World War I and 2 war memorial. Unveiled 1922. Signed/standing on R.A.RAY ARCA ART & SCULPT. Granite with bronze figure. Railings and gates wrought - iron. Angel of Victory holding globe on tall Tuscan column with laurel leaf band at base, egg and dart echinus. Tall moulded plinth has laurel wreaths and upturned torches carved in low relief; and inscriptions on W: A TRIBUTE TO OUR GLORIOUS DEAD ; on N 1914 - 1918; on S 1939 - 1945. 4 steps up to platform are flanked by dwarf walls with nail - head studs in coping. Enclosing railings and gates have cross - in - circle motif, paired principal uprights and top rails. 4 lamp standards are a short distance from corners are contemporary. They are described as c1925 cast - iron and highly decorated. Octagonal base supports fluted post springing from acanthus foliage. Moulded top with 4 light globes hang. Founder's name at foot. Heavily overpainted {1} Unveiled 26th December 1922. A Doric style column and pedestal of Cornish grey granite, weighing 85 tons, supporting a bronze winged victory, 12 feet 4 inches high, clad in Classical draperies. She holds a wreath in her right hand and a burning brand in her left. 64 feet high in total. There are four carved laurel wreaths on the pedestal "A TRIBUTE TO OUR GLORIOUS DEAD 1914-1918 1939-1945". The sculptor was Richard A. Ray. At the foot of the monument there were guns from the Crimean War, but these were melted down in World War Two {www.newmp.org.uk}.

Terrace of 7 houses with steps and railings. 1840 except for No. 23, 1850. English garden wall bond brick (5 and one), No. 23 painted black, painted ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof with brick chimneys. Stone steps, some renewed, and wrought - iron step balustrades, some renewed. Most 2 storeys and basement, No. 18 with 3 storeys. No. 23 basement area blocked. 3 windows each house except 2 to No. 17. Steps up at left of each house to 6 - panelled doors, renewed to Nos. 21 and 22, in surrounds of pilasters and entablature, with Greek key decoration to Nos. 17, 19, 20 and 22; surround removed from No. 21. Wedge stone lintels and projecting stone sills to windows, sashes with some glazing bars to No. 20, all glazing bars No. 23, others renewed sashes or casements. No. 17 has canted bay window through basement and 2 storeys. No. 18; basement opening with boarded shutters; third storey added. Canted dormers with hipped roofs and slate - hung sides to Nos. 17 and 22, small gabled dormer to No. 21 and No. 19, small square headed dormer to No. 23. Some transvers ridge chimneys. No. 23 has wrought - iron step handrails and about one metre length of spike - headed garden railing running forward from steps.

Bethesda Free Chapel (Independent). 1844-5; side galleries 1852. For AA Rees (former Anglican), 'The Pope of Tatham St'. Seated 1300. Dated 1844 in pediment. Garden wall bond brick (5 and one) and limestone rubble returns, rendered rear, with ashlar sandstone plinth and painted ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof. EXTERIOR: ritual west to street has 2 stories; 3 windows and set - back sides. Pedimented centre has recessed central bay with steps up to 6 - panelled double door and 2 - pane overlight recessed under cornice on scroll brackets; renewed window above has shallow segmental head in wedge stone lintel, and projecting stone sill. Similar windows in flanking bays which project slightly, all 3 bays under pediment and a bracketed top panel with low relief BETHESDA/FREE CHAPEL filling the centre; panel in pediment has 1844 in low relief letters. Flanking set back section blank with prominent eaves cornice and blocking course. INTERIOR shows fluted iron column, mostly now cased - in, supporting gallery round 3 sides. Baptismal pool. Memorial to AA Rees d.1884. Pews renewed. Building paid for by the minister who established it, Arthur Augustus Rees, on land bought from a local Quaker family, Cable Wilson. (Brockie W: Memoirs of Arthur Augustus Rees (Information from Mr. E. Turner): 1884-) {1}. A World War Two memorial screen with leaded glass was removed from the church in the 1970s {www.newmp.org.uk S140.111}.

House, later manse to Primitive Methodist Church, before reversion to domestic use. Probably 1840; changed use and front to Tatham Street altered 1875. Rendered with painted ashlar dressings on Tatham Street front; rear elevation to Back Tatham Street. Garden wall bond brick (5 and one) with painted ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof with brick chimneys. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; entrance front to Tatham Street. 3 windows with steps to central half - glazed door in pilaster surround with bracketed hood; canted bay windows with hipped roofs flank door; sashes with glazing bars and painted projecting stone sills immediately over door and above canted bays; small sash inserted to right of centre on first floor. Hipped roof on deep bracketed eaves has front and rear ridge chimney stacks. Rear, original elevation to Back Tatham Street has 4 windows and narrow one - storey porch set back at left. Partly - glazed door in left set - back porch under monopitch roof. Giant angle pilasters with cornices support deep bracketed eaves over ground floor sashes with glazing bars and aprons and first floor sashes with painted projecting stone sills, all with wedge stone lintels; roof has late19th century canted dormer with hipped roof. Wide painted ashlar panel at centre, with quadrant corners, has lost inscription.

A large late Victorian double-fronted house called Enfield, now divided into two. Sits in a large curved plot creating a deep front garden and a large secluded back garden. Red brick with sandstone detailing. The house has tall chimneys, two large front gables each with a large stone bay window and a central front door with ornate stone surround. It has boxy 1960s extensions, added render and changes to the shape of window openings. The garden is surrounded by a rubble wall. There are several gate piers.

Four houses constructed in 1840 with alterations to c1900 to no. 28 at right. The architecture is influenced by the design of 18th-century terraces in Bath, London and Edinburgh. The terraces were constructed for professional middle-class families. Garden wall bond brick, with tuck pointing to no. 25; painted ashlar basements and dressings; Welsh slate roof with brick chimneys. 2 storeys and basement, each house 3 windows. Nos. 25 and 26 have doorcases with dentilled entablature on Tuscan pilasters at right, doors removed, and windows inserted, doors and cases removed from Nos. 27 and 28. Basement to No. 28 rises to ground floor sill string. Wedge stone lintels and projecting stone sills to sashes, mostly 4-pane and probably original, those on ground floor with panelled ashlar aprons. No. 28 has sill strings and upper glazing bars to first floor sashes. Eaves gutter cornice. Roof has 2 dormers to No. 25, one a canted bay dormer of Sunderland type with hipped roof and the second flat-topped; gabled dormer to No. 28. Transverse - ridge chimneys. Steps removed from No. 28 and blocked to No. 27. Area railings renewed. Step balustrades cast - iron with wrought - iron handrails.

Terraces constructed in 1850. The architecture is influenced by the design of 18th-century terraces in Bath, London and Edinburgh. The terraces were constructed for professional middle-class families. The terraces are constructed out of garden wall bonded brick (5 and one) with painted ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof with dark ridge tiles and brick chimney-stacks. Wrought-iron handrail to steps. Entrance transferred to Borough Road; Foyle Street entrance blocked. Two storeys; three windows to Foyle Street and two on right return to Borough Road. Foyle Street has blind windows in right bay, sashes with vertical glazing bars in left, with wedge stone lintels and projecting stone sills. Borough Road has inserted entrance with 6 renewed steps up to renewed glazed central door with plain overlight in doorcase of engaged fluted Greek Doric columns; wedge stone lintels and projecting stone sills to windows, ground-floor sashes with vertical glazing bars, first floor renewed with top-hung transom light at left, 4/4 sashes above door, blocked window at right. Low pitched hipped roof has ridge chimneys with round yellow pots. Original plain handrail on steps.