Water company offices, the Thomas Hawksley House with steps, dwarf walls and railings attached. Constructed in 1907 and designed by William & Thomas R Milburn In a Renaissance palazzo style with Baroque elements. The building is named after Thomas Hawksley who designed twelve pumping stations between 1846 and 1905. Penrith red sandstone ashlar chimneys. Exterior: 3 storeys and basement. 5 x 8 windows. John Street elevation has end bays projecting. Steps up to panelled door in Ionic porch at left with segmental pediment, ground floor has aprons to round-headed windows with patterned glazing bars in upper lights and elaborate keystones supporting first-floor band; blind central bay. Projecting end bays have sill string to sashes with glazing bars in corniced architraves, on which rest the aprons of smaller second-floor sashes also with glazing bars and architraves. Inner bays have Tuscan attached columns flanking sashes with alternative pediments below smaller second-floor windows. Entablature with dentilled cornice and blocking course breaks forward over end bays. Hipped roof has corniced transverse chimneys behind the blocking course. Right return to Borough Road has projecting pair of bays at left, forming corner pavilion with projection on John Street, and slightly projecting pair at right. Steps up to big Ionic porch at right with segmental pediment. On ground floor, one large window in left projection, 4 in centre and one to left of porch. Other windows like those on John Street with in addition giant swagged canted pilasters, the central wider and with cartouche, to 4 central bays. Interior: Baroque open-well stair from John Street entrance has reception desk fitted in stairwell, panelled doors in architraves, and elaborately glazed domed well light on shallow drum with high relief swags and intertwined dolphins. Panelled board room has Ionic columns and pilasters, stucco wall panels, richly moulded beams to panelled ceiling, elaborate chimneypiece and overmantel. Railings and dwarf walls: flanking steps to John Street entrance, continuing to left in front of adjacent house (No. 27) and to the right as far as Borough Road, continuing to the steps to that entrance. Spike-headed wrought iron railings with principals of patterned panels. The building is now used as apartments.

Four houses that are part of a terrace block 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. The terraces have steps, dwarf walls and railings attached. Garden wall bond brick (5 and one) with much tuck pointing; painted ashlar basements and dressings; Welsh slate roof with brick chimneys. Exterior: each 2 storeys and basement, 3 windows. Steps up (renewed to No.23) to doors at right of each: No.20 a 6-panelled door and overlight with petal-shaped glazing bars in round-headed panelled reveals with open dentilled pediment on attached Tuscan columns; No.21 with Tuscan pilasters and plain entablature to 10-panel double door folding back to form panelled reveals; No.22 with c1900 8-panelled door and pedimented surround; No.23 with double 3-panel doors in late19th century doorcase of architrave with hood on big console brackets. 4-pane sashes, probably original, and plain sashes to No.23 have wedge stone lintels and projecting stone sills, those on ground floor with panelled ashlar aprons; No.23 has ground-floor shop window inserted. Eaves gutter cornices. Roof has gabled dormer to No.20, Sunderland-type later 19th-century canted bay dormer with hipped roof to No.22, and two flat-topped 20th century dormers to No.23. Step balustrades and area railings mostly cast iron with elaborate heads. Transverse-ridge chimneys.

3 houses, now offices, with steps, dwarf walls and railings attached. Part of a terrace. 1840 in two builds, No.47 at right possibly later. English garden wall bond brick with painted ashlar basements and dressings; Welsh slate roof with brick chimneys. Ashlar dwarf walls; cast and wrought iron balustrades and railings. Exterior: 2 storeys and basement, 3 windows each house. Steps up to double doors, at right of each house, with 10 fielded panels to Nos 45 and 46, 6 panels to No.47, which fold back to form panelled reveals to inner door. Painted stone door surrounds of pilasters and entablature with shallow dentils to frieze. Wedge stone lintels and projecting stone sills to sashes with horizontal glazing bars, those on ground floor with panelled aprons to 2 houses at left; sill strings on both floors of No.27. Basements have channelled rustication. No.27 has wide giant brick pilaster at left; adjacent right house, which forms corner with Athenaeum Street, demolished and replaced with 20th century building. Step balustrades of cast iron with wrought handrails; chamfered dwarf area walls have cast iron railings with ornamental heads, some replaced, and interrupted by entrances to renewed basement doors.

County Court was constructed in 1875 out of local coal measures sandstone and red brick. The building is associated with steps, dwarf walls and attached railings. The County Court was constructed by the Office of works and designed by James Williams (1824-1892) in an Italian Renaissance style. Ashlar, first floor bright red brick in English bond with ashlar dressings. Roof not visible. Free Baroque style. Exterior: 2 storeys and basement. 7 windows. Rusticated ground floor has steps up to double 8-panelled doors and plain overlights in end bays. Doorcases have lugged architrave surrounds with corner paterae, in fluted hollow reveals flanked by long scroll brackets supporting cornice and entablature with hood. Long keystones from architrave to hood have carved heads: at left, blindfolded Justice, at right, Queen Victoria and date 1876. Ground floor with channelled rustication has wide sill band to sashes with moulded architraves. Basement has plain reveals to fixed lights with glazing bars. First floor sashes have architraves under panelled frieze and cornice. Top entablature has COUNTY COURT incised in panel under brick fascia and prominent modillioned gutter cornice with blocking course. Square topped dwarf walls flanking steps to each door have spear-headed cast-iron railings which continue along chamfered area wall.

Burdon House was built between 1914 and 1917 as shops and offices for the North Eastern Railway Company. The 3-story building was designed in a restrained classical style by William Bell (1844-1919). It is constructed with black granite at street level. Rusticated ground floor has pilasters framing door in 9th bay under high overlight, in round-headed surround with hollow reveals, and supporting shop entablature with fascia name boards. Giant pilasters to upper floors rest on moulded brackets and frame pairs of sashes, the lower in architraves, the upper with keyed segmental-headed architraves on moulded sills with plain rectangular aprons. The subsequent stories are constructed out of local coal measures sandstone. Top entablature with dentilled cornice supports balustraded roof parapet. Ashlar; roof not visible; ashlar chimneys. 10 x 3 windows. Low-pitched roof has corniced end ashlar chimneys. Right return similar. Left return has central 3-light mullioned and transomed windows flanked by 2-storey shallow box tripartite oriels.

Terrace of houses, most now offices, with steps and railings in front. 1854. By GA Middlemiss. For RJ Moore. Garden wall bond brick with painted ashlar basement and ashlar and stucco dressings; Welsh slate roof except for synthetic slates in imitation of Welsh slate on No.4 and 5. Each house has a basement and two storeys. Most have three windows but No. 3 has two windows. Basement has banded rustication. Nos. 3, 4 and 5 have doors at left with heavy Doric doorcases with engaged fluted columns supporting entablatures with triglyph frieze, and bow windows at right. First-floor sashes have sill band and horizontal glazing bars under wedge-shaped stuccoed lintels. No. 7 is Douro House. It has a later square bay on the ground floor and first floor sashes with vertical glazing bars. Eaves frieze and cornice, dentilled to No. 6. Gabled dormers inserted in Nos. 3 and 4, the latter with four round-arched lights.

2 lamp standards, (in front of main entrance to museum and library), originally set in front of Sunderland Town Hall, Fawcett Street, which was opened in 1890 and demolished in 1971. C1910. Cast - iron. Each has panelled octagonal base supporting foliage cluster from which rises a tapered post. 3 lamp holders, 2 on arms and one at top, possibly restored. Flanking lamp standards are c1980.

Museum and art gallery constructed between 1877 and 9 in a classical grandeur chateau style designed by John & Thomas Tillman. The original design for the museum and art gallery was more elaborate based upon the “Crystal Palace,” constructed at Hyde Park in 1851. The building is constructed out of local coal measures sandstone ashlar cut with a slate roof. The 2 story building has 13 bays, the central wider; 3 bays in returns. High rusticated plinth. Tall projecting central bay has pediment over arch on paired Corinthian pilasters, framing steps up to paired doors in keyed arched surrounds. Projecting end bays have dentilled pediments on rusticated square pilasters; each has blind roundel over pedimented surround to window with keyed round-headed architrave. Similar windows in other bays under blind panels. Bays flanking centre have rusticated outer pilasters; giant attached Corinthian columns define intermediate central bays. Top entablature has dentilled cornice continuing from end pediments, and supports balustrade which, in bays flanking centre, supports canted coping continuing line of central pediment and so suggesting pediment over 3 central bays. Convex-hipped roof over central bay with wrought-iron railings; similar railings on tall hipped roofs of outer bays; lower main roof hipped. The Winter Gardens associated with the building were destroyed in 1941 during an air-raid. In the 1960s this was replaced with a sandstone clad extension. At the beginning of the millennium the museum was refurbished, and a modern entrance was added in addition to a new Winter Garden.

Stone railway bridge which once carried the Londonderry, Seaham and Sunderland Railway. In reasonable condition but could do with repair and graffiti removed.

Stone railway bridge abutments survive on either side of the lane which runs south from the Golden Lion Public House. The bridge was associated with the Garesfield Wagonway (SMR 3465).