Tightly packed two storey buildings with varying ridge heights and building materials. Most have lost their original character by having frontages painted or rendered and original slate roofs replaced by fake slates or concrete tiles. First floor windows are casement replacements (some in uPVC some in timber). Several flat-roofed extensions have been added.

This flamboyant building on the corner of East Street and North Guards dates from around 1895. It is Arts & Craft inspired with red brick, painted moulded lintels and cills, curved shop window hoods, sash windows and shaped gables. It has a large Venetian window and an open rooftop lantern.

Elegant and smart building dating from 1905. It was given to the village by Mrs Eleanor Barnes, wife of Thomas Barnes. Its foundation stone was laid by Sir Hedworth Williamson. The institute housed dances, concerts, meetings and social events and was home to the village library. It is built in large red bricks with a rendered gable and full height bay window. Its mock half-timbering and steeply pitched roof are Arts & Craft influence. There is a smaller gable above a pair of traditional shopfronts with unusual carved fascias.

Single storey 19th century cottages with hipped Welsh slate roofs. Some are now shops.

An attractive group of two-storey Victorian sandstone houses with Welsh slate roofs, terracotta ridges and corbelled brick chimneys. 4 panelled doors, paired sash windows with stone mullions and a canted oriel bay. Box dormers and heavy cement render spoil the original character.

A tunnel-like chare or alley between Nos. 27 and 29 Front Street. Has whitewashed walls, stone flag floor and carved console entrance detailing. Widens into a rear lane with dilapidated garaging.

A chare or alley. Tunnel-like Chicks Lane is a narrow straight route between Nos. 17 and 19 Front Street. It is painted black and has an uneven concrete floorscape.

Dates from the early 1800s. Attractive but altered public house with a Welsh slate roof and some good sash windows, some with margin panes. It was once half-timbered. There are two old timber benches adjacent to the pub.

Demolished in the 1920s to imrove the junction of Front Street and the A193.

Whitburn and Marsden Social Club is set well back and is screened by mature trees and a high brick wall almost 3m high with robust brick gate piers with stone copings and intricate wrought iron gates (on the local list). A simple red brick building with a single storey full-width front extension and green Westmorland slate roof with carved bracketed eaves. Paired window openings.