A completely new village with at its south-east corner, private houses by the Development Corporation (1969-73) in cul-de-sacs. One or two storey semi-detached and detached, with pitched and monopitch roofs, some tile-hung or weather-boarded. In Knoulberry, a group of old people's bungalows (1969-72) following similar designs, and some early housing of 1969-71, laid out in system-built blocks of flats and terraces with flat roofs, uniformly grey. The village centre has understated architecture and lush greenery giving a pleasant sense of enclosure. Its small ecumenical church serves four villages.

Terraced housing for rent (1974-5) along a series of short curving roads and pedestrian ways following the contours of the hillside. The houses are of plain beige brick and tile-hung, with pitched and monopitch roofs, some with garages. In Lindisfarne and Rievaulx, three storey private houses, semi-detached and just detached with monopitch roofs sloping back from flat timber-clad facades.

Some of the most self-consciously rural of all Washington's housing. 1976-9. Large mixer courts, the central areas like village greens, withs paths winding through the planting. Red and brown brick and cream stucco facades with red and brown pantile roofs informally mixed in staggered terraces.

The aim was to set a standard of environment (architecture, landscape and atmosphere) which could be imitated elsewhere. The New Town replaced four collieries (Glebe, Harraton, Washington F Pit and Usworth) and several small colliery settlements (Usworth, Donwell, Concord, Washington, Columbia, Fatfield and Mount Pleasant). The masterplan was by Llewelyn-Davies, Weeks & Partners in co-operation with Sylvia Crowe & Associates, 1967. It included neighbourhood units or 'villages' within a grid of primary roads. A third of the size of Milton Keynes, the largest contemporary post-war New Town. The town centre lay west of Washington old village. It includes a shopping precinct (The Galleries), a civic centre, library, health centre, police station, sports hall. The shopping precinct and civic square is by Corporation Architect, Eric Watson. The Galleries are in two enclosed parts (1971-3 and 1977-8) with a small open colonnaded square between them and with the large supermarkets at each end. Two storeys of small shops and a pub, upper and lower galleries separated by glass-balconied wells. Expensive finishes, low artificial lighting, indoor plants and carpeting give a homely feel. Civic Square (c.1973-6) on upper level. Short facades face the square. Rectangular in style in white crystalline-aggregate concrete blockwork. Bands of windows with aluminium mullions. A footbridge leads south to the sports centre in Princess Anne Park. A swimming pool takes up most of it. Pedestrians enter at the level of a band of bronze-tinted glazing that runs all around the foyer, gallery and pool. The pool area of concrete blockwork is cut away underneath with changing rooms, squash courts etc. fitted under the angle. There are office buildings round the perimeter of the town centre. To the north-west is Durham House (1972-8) by Riches & Blythin, a government computer centre of dark tinted glass and flush cladding. The only tower block in Washington. To the south-west, four Advance office blocks (1970-3) - concrete with slit windows between horizontal bands. The town centre is devoted to commerce, beauracracy and leisure - there is no church or public meeting place.

1750. Demolished for a road improvement in the 1970s. The rendered front had two cross-framed windows and traces of two entrances. All other windows C19. Much altered internally in 1862 and with no original features when demolished.

There has been a public house on the site since at least 1856.

1894 by J.W. Bell. Conversion for commercial purposes has detracted from a once fine façade in red brick with stone dressings, ornate lintels, decorated panels, cornice mounted with animal heads. Two and three storeys with a short clock tower.

By S.W. Milburn & Partners of Sunderland c.1960. Ingeniously planned on a steep site with handsome entrance steps. Tall concrete fleche behind a short chancel.

A large town church of the 1880s by Dunn, Hansom & Dunn, extended in 1909. From 1900 the parish was served by the Redemptorist Order, for whom a monastery was built from designs by Charles Walker.
The red brick exterior of the church is relatively austere, even forbidding in character. By contrast, the interior is very fine, with good stone carving by Boulton of Cheltenham, an intact highly enriched high altar given by C. Swinburne, and timber furnishings of high quality.
St Benet’s was the third nineteenth century Catholic mission to be established in Sunderland, and the first to be built north of the River Wear. It is dedicated to St Benedict (or Benet) Biscop, builder of the Saxon church of St Peter at nearby Monkwearmouth. A site behind Broad Street (now Roker Avenue) was purchased, probably in 1861, by the Rev. George Dunn, chaplain to the convent alongside St Mary’s, and a school was built from the designs of A.M. Dunn in 1865. This may survive in part in the rather diminutive building now somewhat dwarfed by the later monastery buildings.
The school building also served also as a chapel until the present church was built by Fr Jules de Floer, a young Belgian priest who was appointed in 1873. It appears that there was a limited competition for the choice of architect, for designs were prepared by Charles Walker (Morris & Gooch, 235) as well as by the successful architects, Dunn, Hansom & Dunn of Newcastle. The foundation stone was laid on 28 July 1888 by Auxiliary Bishop Wilkinson, who opened the completed church on 14 July 1889. The design illustrated in Building News (1888) was in the Early English style and included a tower with octagonal upper stage, prefiguring Dunn, Hansom & Dunn’s design for St Michael, Newcastle (qv). In the event, a cheaper and simpler design was adopted, although the Geometrical tracery of the great west window is an and capable of seating 900 or 1000. The contractor was T. Lumsden of Jarrow, and the architectural stone carving was by Boulton of Cheltenham.
According to the parish website, the sanctuary and side chapels were added in 1909, following acquisition of further land by the Redemptorists. The architect for these additions is not named; it could have been the successor firm of Dunn, Hansom & Fenwicke or possibly Charles Walker, who had been retained by the Redemptorists in 1902. A sacristy was built at the same time, linked to the monastery by a corridor. The high altar of 1888-89 was moved to the new sanctuary.
In 1916 the church was damaged in a zeppelin raid, with many of the windows blown out. In 1919 St Gerard’s chapel (south of the sanctuary) was dedicated as a war memorial chapel.
In 1925 a parish hall was added facing Roker Avenue. The school also continued to expand in the interwar decades. In 1953 an additional strip of land in front of the church on The Causeway was purchased; this was laid out as a garden, with a Lourdes grotto built by parishioners in 1961.
The church was reordered in the early 1980s, and the new altar consecrated by Bishop Swindlehurst on 24 March 1983. The pulpit with tall timber canopy (shown in front of the chancel arch in older photographs) and the altar rails were also removed at this time; some of the carved figures from the pulpit were incorporated into the confessionals.

Public house.