No. 10 is Ashbrooke House nursing home. No. 11 is called Cedars End. No. 11 has Italianate features such as the porch and a three storey tower like nearby Langham Tower. There is a magnificent brick boundary wall and at No. 11 gate piers with decorative pier caps.

Was South Hill Hostel for Aged Men, now South Hill College. A fine Italianate symmetrical villa, architecturally impressive with a large Tuscan porch. It is the only detached property in the street. A number of relatively sympathetic extensions have been added. There is a magnificent brick boundary wall.

Nos. 1 and 2 are now called Kensington House divided into 12 apartments. Nos. 3 and 4 are now Cedar House Rest Home and 4a is called The Coach House. A short substantial terrace, three storeys and three bays to each property. No. 1 has a large two storey porch with Baroque and Italianate features, including 'bullseye' windows, a parapet and stag motif. Most of the windows are uPVC. There is a magnificent brick boundary wall which is highly distinctive, featuring decorative brickwork, plinths and sandstone capping. Portions of it have been unsympathetically altered. There is a fine limestone boundary wall on the return of No. 1 fronting Ryhope Road.

Laid out in the 1920s the corner of the park features a brick triumphal arch entance and a formal garden. The arch is made from materials from Ford Hall (dark red brick with stone, brick and tile detailing.

Sunderland City Council proposes that The Cedars be designated a Conservation Area. In 1999 the North East Civic Trust produced a comprehensive study of the area. At that time it was proposed that the CA would cover a larger area, including Belford House and grounds. Sadly Belford House was lost to fire in 2006. The leafy suburb comprises mid to late Victorian and Edwardian terraces and villas with high quality timber and terracotta detailing. The Stockton turnpike road (HER 3619) is the earliest built feature in the CA. Villette Road and The Cedars are thought to have existed as tracks prior to the area's development. The land was part of the South Moor House estate. The house stood on the site of South Moor School. Whilst dense development reached Ashbrooke and Hendon by the 1870s, The Cedars remained semi-rural. This is probably because it was separated from the town to the north by the dene of the Hendon Burn (later to becaome Backhouse Park) and to the east by the railway. The Cedars, Belford House, Belford Terrace and Belford Road were laid out in the mid to late Victorian period. They are shown on the Ordnance Survey second edition of 1896. Belford House was built as a pair of semi-detached houses for Alderman Coates. The Cedars is a series of detached and semi-detached houses probably built to a single plan possibly by a speculative builder around 1860. There were three large late 19th century houses (Nos. 1 to 3 Montpelier Terrace) on the site of the petrol station. These were demolished in the 1960s or 70s. By 1918 Ashbrooke Range, Rowlandson Terrace, Cedars Park and Cedars Crescent had been built. Architects probably included William and Thomas R. Milburn who designed the Empire Theatre. In the 20th century Ryhope Road (HER 3619) was dualled (householders on Rowlandson Terrace were paid compensation for the loss of part of their front gardens) and trams ran along it, making the area accessible. Garages and extensions were added to The Cedars. In recent years houses have been built in some of the long rear gardens.

Whitburn Bents was created as a fishermen's hamlet. A Fishermen's Club still occupies a small dene to the north. It has been damaged by fire.

Built in 1938 by Sir Hedworth Williamson to replace the 19th century fisherman's cottages (HER 12459). The new cottages were badly damaged during heavy bombing in 1940. After the War they were rebuilt, the previous design and materials being replicated. Symmetrical concave crescent of white rendered cottages. Plain clay tiled roof and tall brick corniced chimneys. Timber doors and metal windows. The central and end properties are two storey and have distinctive shaped gables and sloping dormer windows. The other six cottages are single storey. They are of typical post Arts & Crafts 1930s architectural style. A low limestone boundary wall runs between the rear of the cottages and the beach and around the small dene to the north where fishing boats are still stored. Only one cottage has entirely retained its original form including the original timber casement windows. The others have uPVC windows.Each house has a timber canopy over the door. Many cottages have added roof lights into the rear slopes, one has a single dormer. Conservatories have also been added.

By 1896 two groups of cottages had been built at either end of the fishermen's cottages (HER 12459), perpendicular to the main rows. The northern group was demolished in 1938 along with the fishermen's cottages by Sir Hedworth Williamson. The southern group survived and are now a single house known as Sandpiper. Sandpiper was originally a pair of farmworkers cottages. The building is of local limestone and is rather quaint and charming. Small gabled dormers. The windows, gutters and barge boards have been replaced in uPVC. The original boundary walls, also limestone, survive.

This row of fishermen's cottages was built in the 19th century to create the Bents hamlet. In 1828 there were ten fishing boats at The Bents in the small bay. The houses were single storey white washed cottages. By 1896 another row had been added with two groups of grander cottages at either end, perpendicular to the main rows. In the 1920s 'the smallest shop in Sunderland' was built next to the end cottage at the south, which became a tea-shop. Demolished in 1938 by Sir Hedworth Williamson. A

In the mid 19th century a gas works was built by Sir Hedworth Williamson, landowner at Whitburn, Roker and Monkwearmouth. The gas works provided gas lighting for his family house Whitburn Hall (HER 8470). In 1864 Whitburn Hall became the first house in the area to have gas lighting. The gas works were demolished around 1940.