House, now offices. 1830. Brick with ashlar dressings; coursed magnesium limestone rubble rear elevation. Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. By the early twentieth century the house was used as an office. Commercial buildings designed by G.T. Brown in a Baroque style were constructed in the rear yard in 1902.

Dock office and walls and piers attached. 1850. By John Murray. For Sunderland Dock Company. Hydraulic accumulator inserted 1875 for swing bridge, designed by Sir W Armstrong & Co., for River Wear Commission. Coursed squared limestone with ashlar sandstone dressings and tower; Welsh slate roof with ashlar chimney. Modified Baroque style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3x3 bays with E staircase wing and SE tower. N elevation has alternate block surrounds and projecting flat stone lintels to double doors with overlight at centre and in left stair wing. Staircase doors panelled. Similar jambs and projecting flat sills and lintels to ground - floor windows. First floor and first floor sill bands. First - floor windows have lugged architraves with raised voussoirs, the central rising as key across entablature with gutter cornice and blocking course. Low - pitched hipped roof has corniced ridge chimney. Right return has central upper window blocked, and fire door inserted with external fire escape; sashes with glazing bars in left bay which now contains hydraulic accumulator for swing bridge. Rear left return has tower with slit lights and clock faces in top stage below bracketed cornice and blocking course. INTERIOR shows ground floor house and first floor office, now all offices; panelled doors with architraves; some original chimney pieces and simple stucco decoration. Hydraulic accumulator inserted behind first right return bay has walls apparently of wood which may be concrete with shuttering marking, and retains machinery. Tower stair to clock chamber, now used for access to dock traffic light, has renewed balustrade with a few original stick balusters but handrail renewed in straight sections. High stone yard wall with ashlar coping on left return encloses triangular area between stair and tower and has entrance with two square piers with flat stone coping, one damaged. Adjacent swing bridge (qv) has original machinery but is now not operated by this hydraulic accumulator. (Corfe T: The Buildings of Sunderland 1814 - 1914.: Newcastle upon Tyne: 1983-: 18; Milburn GE and Miller ST: Sunderland River, Town and People: Sunderland: 1988-: 17).

Terrace of 11 houses constructed in 1840. 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 (5 and one) with painted ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roofs with brick chimneys. Each house 2 storeys and basement, 3 windows. Steps up to double 5 - panelled doors which fold back to form reveals of doorcases of pilasters and entablature, some with Greek key and some with palmette and anthemion friezes, and with prominent cornices. Wedge stone lintels and projecting stone sills to sashes, most renewed and some with glazing bars. Hipped stone roof has transverse - ridge brick chimneys. Sans serif capitals incised on panel with FOYLE STREET, and well - proportioned incised Roman capitals ATHENAEUM STREET on right return, on painted ashlar street name plaques on No. 25 at north. Restored railings on steps and on restored dwarf walls.

Statue. Dated and signed C BACON Sc LONDON 1875 with founder's mark H YOUNG & CO.ART FOUNDERS PLIMICO. Slightly larger than life size figure, in contemporary dress, on square plinth with moulded stepped base of polished porphytritic granite. Inscription: JOHN CANDLISH M.P. BORN 1815 DIED 1874.

Gates and railings to former Presbyterian chapel. Possibly 1873, put up when adjacent school (qv) was built for chapel. Ashlar dwarf walls, cast and wrought - iron gate and railings. Segmental - topped walls hold spear - finialled railings and similar dog bars; gates of same pattern are hung from iron piers formed from same railings arranged in square plan; from these piers scrolls rise to support scrolled overthrow with raised centre for lamp.

Masonic temple, with walls and gates attached. 1932. By CA Clayton-Greene. Neo-Greek style. Thin brick in stretcher bond; ashlar plinth, dressings and end pavilions; roof not visible; brick walls with stone coping and wrought and cast-iron gates.

Methodist New Connexion Church (now Bethshan Church), with school, walls and gates attached. 1887-1997. By J Eltringham (congregation from Zion Chapel). For New Connextion. Rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings, terracotta ridge, and stone spire. Aisled nave with transepts and SW tower. Gothic 13th century style. Gallery with cast iron pillars.

Forecourt and side railings to St George's House. 1855. Cast iron railings on dwarf ashlar walls. Spear-headed railings, some renewed, have principals with cone finials and enclose garden, running from rear porch, along left return of house, to front entrance and yard wall.

(Also known as: Gladstone Bridge HUDSON DOCK). Swing - bridge with walls, abutments and lock. 1875. For the River Wear Commissioners. Hydraulic machinery by Sir W Armstrong & Co., Elswick. Ashlar walls and abutments; steek lock gate, replaced 1955; riveted steel girder bridge, known as Hog - back bridge, the E end within a curved stone wall and the W end lying against an extension of that wall when the bridge is open to dock. When the bridge is closed to the dock, forming a roadway across the north end, the west end of the bridge rests on a stone abutment. Driven by engines and accumulator housed in the adjacent dock office (qv), now used as various offices. Shown on 1875 official plan of docks. An early example of a swing - bridge and of the hydraulic technology invented and developed by Sir William Armstrong. (Sinclair NT: Railways of Sunderland: Newcastle upon Tyne: 1986-: 60 (MAP)).

Sunderland, North half tide basin, wall and pier at lock at N end of tide basin. Lock. 1890. For the River Wear Commissioners. Steel gates (replaced 1955) and ashlar walls; hydraulic machinery. High ashlar walls and central pier; two sets of gates. Lock installed at the same time as the swing bridge between the half tide basin and Hudson Dock North (qv) and operated by the hydraulic system which Sir William Armstrong invented and developed. (Corfe T: The Buildings of Sunderland 1814 - 1914.: Newcastle upon Tyne: 1983-: 18; Milburn GE and Miller ST: Sunderland River, Town and People: Sunderland: 1988-: 17).