Electricity substation, brick. It has double doors and a single door on its south elevation with three windows above with timber ventilation louvres and concrete sills and lintels. Three windows on the east elevation have been bricked up. Inside there is a crane on an overhead gantry. The frame dates to at least 1938. It is capable of traversing the entire floor of the four-bayed substation building and is entirely chain-operated. The metalwork has become magnetized, presumably from hanging over the 5750 volt transformer. The substation is being demolished in June 2013 to make way for offices.

The grave of William Kirtley of the Durham Light Infantry. He was the only soldier from East Rainton to be brought home to be buried. The grave is looked after by the War Graves Commissioners. The British Legion used to meet at the village hall. After the annual Armistice Service in the church the 'Last Post' was sounded over William Kirtley's grave.

Opened in 1926. Had a sprung dance floor. Closed in 1934 when Hazard Pit closed. Reopened as a village hall and was used by the Cricket and Football Clubs, Women's Institute and British Legion. The Women's Institute started in East Rainton in 1948. Demolished 1990. Site now occupied by Highfield Hotel.

In existence by 1851. The pitch was also encircled by the embankment carrying the railway from Hazard Pit (now footpaths). A pit pony was used each year to pull the grass cutting machine. He was stabled in a small shed next to the pavilion. The club has played in four different fields. Known as East Rainton Cricket Club when the pit closed 1935. The Football Club took over the original cricket field as their pitch. They had to change in the Village Tavern as they had no pavilion.

Owned by Lord Londonderry. Occupied by Mr Walker. The farmhouse has been restored in 2013. The barns were recorded in 2014 in advance of conversion to dwellings. The southern barn appears to be 18th or early 19th century in origin. The northern barn was then added and access inserted through to the southern barn at first floor level. In the 1920s or 30s the original doorway in the east wall was blocked up. Stables were added to the east and west and machinery into a ground floor room and a machine belt slot in the west wall. Today all ground floor features are blocked up. A range of farm buildings is shown around a yard on the tithe map of 1839. The east and west ranges have now gone. The farm was known locally as Walker's Farm. The Walker family were pub landlords, ran the post office and ran the farm. The barns are two storey, built in roughly-coursed sandstone masonry with quoins at the corners. The southern roof was corrugated asbestos, the northern roof was tiled. Southern barn - the east elevation contains two small square windows, one on the ground floor, one between ground and first floors, probably marking the former location of a staircase. There is a blocked doorway with a timber lintel adjacent to this window. There is a later doorway on its north side, now blocked with breeze-blocks. This door has four brick and concrete steps. There are several brick repairs on this elevation. Scars on the wall face show the position of the former east-west range. The rear wall behind the barn is part of this structure, with terracotta pipe vents and hay racks. The central quarter of the barns has a central blocked doorway with two small windows to either side and another window at first floor level. The windows have sandstone lintels and sills. The northern barn contains a double-width doorway with timber doors at ground floor level. The lintel above is a replacement. On the first floor is a single central window with sandstone sill and lintel. The north elevation is a featureless gable end with quoins. The west elevation is single-storey in height because ground levels have been altered. The south barn contains a roof scar showing the location of former stables. These had a sandstone rear (south) elevation and brick north elevation and partitions. The stables were late 19th or early 20th century in date. The south barn has a bricked-up doorway with timber lintel. The north barn contains a first floor doorway with timber lintel. A set of brick and concrete steps now provide access. It is likely that this was an original loading door. To the south of the doorway is a sandstone lintel to another probable door. Inside there is evidence of animal stalls and a hay feeding rack along the west wall. There is an inserted timber staircase to the first floor. There are two machines on the ground floor - a feed or chaff cutter and a Bentall Grinding Mill, both of early 20th century date. The engine powering this machine was outside the building, with the machine belt passing through a slot in the west wall. The machine was fed from a timber hopper in the room above. The boundary wall attached to the north-west corner of the barns and running along a track to South Street, was 1.4m in height and constructed of small sandstone blocks. It is shown on the tithe map of 1839.

Located on the Rainton side of Rainton Bridge, this area was used as an encampment by transient communities.
An undated report from the WI about the history of East Rainton states: "Gypsies, who camped in Fleming Field--- a field on the Rainton side of Rainton Bridge--- about sixty four years ago, taught the women of the village how to knit and crochet for a few pennies per lesson. They also taught them how to make wooden clothes pegs and how to play the fiddle, and light farm corves. Gypsies still camp in the area in caravans. Selling lace, and paper and wood shaving flowers from door to door. On special occasions such as Houghton Feast, the fair at Durhalll 'Sands' on Easter Monday and Durham Miner's Gala Dey, the gypsies make their pile by selling their wares and by telling fortunes."

The communal oven later became the boilerhouse at Rainton Bridge Farm. The East Rainton housewifes had set days of the week when she could bake her bread. Each woman had their own 'stamp' on the top of their loaves. The stamp was made by hammering nails into a piece of wood to form a pattern. The nails were pricked into the top of the loaf.

William Jobling was a miner, hanged in 1832 for the murder of Nicholas Fairles, colliery owner and magistrate. After the hanging Jobling's body was carried through the streets in a cart to be displayed on a gibbet at Jarrow Slake. He was one of the last people to be gibetted in England. Jobling and his companion Ralph Armstrong were on strike when they begged the magistrate for money on 11 June 1832. When Fairles refused Armstrong attacked him with a stick and then fled, leaving Jobling to take the blame for Fairles' death. The Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne has a woodcut print dating to the 1830s depicting the murder. The text above the picture reads: "the body of the unfortunate Jobling hangs in a very conspicuous place in Jarrow Slake. Great crowds continue to visit the spot, and at high water several boats appraoch the spot on which the body is suspended. The sight from the road is most appalling. A collection is making at the turnpike gate for the widow and children of the unfortunate man; but it is much to be desired that the contributions for this object were placed in the hands of some respectable person who would see to its being properly applied. Jobling, it will be remembered, was executed for the murder of Mr Fairles, a magistrate. Was his case so much worse than that of Cooke, that ministers should revoke the gibbeting sentence for the latter, and enforce it on the former? Or is gibbeting supposed to be more effective in Durham than it is in Leciester?".

In 1925 the Moorsley Co-operative Society bought land on Durham Road at East Rainton. There was a miner's strike in 1926 so the building was not built until 1931, but trading began from 1927 in part of a rented house owned by Mr Jopling.

Tom Sutheran manufactured mineral water and bottled beer and stout. His bottling factory was in Sutheran's Yard. It employed 4 men inside and 2 cartmen who delivered as far away as Consett and Stanley. The renovated house behind Brown Gables is now called Sutheran House after the yard. In the 1920s this was occupied by the Crake family. There were cottages to the west. One of them was occupied by the Mallison family.