Built in the early 1900s. Broad, gently sloping areas which have been largely obscured by the spreading of clearance rubble from former buildings in the yard. This is where the ships were built. The tide has exposed timbers and metal fixings. At the foot of the western slipway a concrete stacked platform can be seen at low tide. At the foot of the eastern slipway, at low tide, a dilapidated and displaced iron dock gate is visible. The floor of the eastern slipway is littered with rivet heads.

Two raised concrete gantries on which travelling cranes formerly ran. Installed in the late 1940s or early 1950s. They consist of thick concrete beds with a raised edge at each side, inside which the wires of the travelling crane ran. The gantries are supported at the southern end by concrete walls, and at the northern end by reinforced concrete struts. The western gantry still had [in 2000] a 35-ton mono-tower travelling crane at its south end. This is shown on 1950s plans as machine 548. Most of the iron rails at the raised sides of the ganyway have been removed. Beneath the gantry at the north end is a suspended concrete-built chamber. Both gantries retain traces of the winding mechanism by which the travellin cranes were moved, and the tramways along which they ran.

Shown on a photograph of 1946 as a brick building with single pitched roof, in a style similar to that of the rigging loft on the west side of the dry dock. Assumed to have been a late 19th century building contemporary with the joiners shop and rigging loft. Only patchy areas of concrete now survive. To the south of the plumbers shop there was a mono-tower crane, but no trace survives.

Small two-storey brick building erected between 1952 and 1959. Refitted for a compresser in 2000.

Built in 1933. Small single-storey brick pump house. Only partially survives.

Built before 1897 when it appears on the Ordnance Survey map. Brick-built in mottled machine-made red brick. It is twenty bays long with a double pitch roof, and built in a simple functional style. The scars of an external staircase to a mezzanine are visible on the south façade, and of a pitched roof over a third floor window on the east façade. The joiners shop is grander in style and scale than the contemporary rigging loft. The joiners shop has a square clock tower which projects above the southern end of the building and has a simple moulded stone string course. The clocks are damaged and no longer work. A panel in the south façade is pierced by several rows of holes for electric cables, which ran through them to the former platers' shed to the south. In plans of the 1950s held by Cammell Laird, the joiners shop is labelled as a 'saw mill (three floors)'. Recorded by Lancaster University Archaeological Unit in June 2000.

The dock was first built in 1866 but it has been altered with later refits. It has a typical keel-shaped profile and is built of masonry and concrete with keel blocks (concrete blocks which raise the ship's hull above floor level) on the dock floor. A narrow gangway spans the dock at the seaward end. The travelling cranes which formerly stood at the side of the dry dock are no longer in-situ, but their tram rails remain in place. The dock gate is probably that which was installed during a refit in the late 1920s. Work in the 1930s narrowed the starboard (west) dock wall.

A spring near the bottom of Rainton Bank feeds into two stone troughs. Local tradition says that in 1558 Rector of Houghton-le-Spring, Bernard Gilpin was on route to London having been summoned by Queen Mary to declare his religion (Gilpin was a Protestant, the Queen was a Catholic) when he stopped at the troughs, which were fed by the spring, to water his horse. As he dismounted, he fell and broke his leg. He was forced to return home. While his leg was healing Queen Mary died. Queen Elizabeth I was a Protestant and so Bernard Gilpin's life was saved. The date of the troughs is not known. They are now (2013) surrounded by pretty planting and gravel. There are several springs around East Rainton shown on the OS first edition map.

Built and owned by Mr May, colliery engineer. In 1856 Thomas Wood, mining engineer, bought Rainton House. He was the son of Nicholas Wood, one of the original owners of North Hetton Coal Co. In 1901 a servants wing was added to the house. In 1908 a lounge and extra bedroom was added. The Wood family left East Rainton when the mining firm of Hugh Wood & Co was estabished in Newcastle. Thomas Wood was a director of the company. Rainton House was then bought by a Mr Ferrier. When he left, the house stood vacant for some time. In 1928 it was bought by Mr E H Suggett. The house was divided into four separate dwellings. In the 1940s Mr T.F. Hutchinson, another director of Hugh Wood & Co, occupied the main part of the house. The firm paid for repairs and redecoration at St. Cuthbert's Church.

Row of cottages with a farmhouse at the western end. The farmhouse was tenanted by Misses J.E. and F Johnson. Replaced by cottages for the elderly (also called The Folds in the ?1950s).