No 32, (Thornlea) (part of the former Sherriff Hill Hall)
Early C19. Ashlar with low pitched hipped slate roof. At left side, two ashlar stacks with cornice bands and plinths. Two storeys, three bays; the projecting left bay is of rubble, possibly on older building incorporated into the house. Modern windows but for one in the projecting bay. Doorpiece of two Greek Ionic columns in antis.

1903. Snecked sandstone rubble, Welsh slate roofs with fretted ridge tiles, corniced ashlar stacks. Austere building making commanding use of sloping corner site. Main hall with undercroft, large gabled end to road has three bays. Stone mullioned and transomed windows, central, three-light, with Perpendicular head under
four-centred arch. Two-bay domestic section at right has three lower storeys with some windows echoing the hall on a smaller scale. Main gabled right bay has a two-storey battlemented oriel. On left return of hall a prominent chimney stack with abutting roof.

3rd quarter of C19. Unusual Victorian house in two parts now divided into three residences. Polychrome brick with dressings of moulded brick and stone, Welsh slate roofs. South range has corbelled patterned frieze and first floor string. Low pitched hipped roof has large stellar chimneys corniced in several planes. Two storeys, four bays. Upper windows recessed in roll moulded frames with stone keys; Tudor arched lights have inner stone frames. Canted bays below on garden front. Five-bay irregular entrance front has Tudor-arched doorway. Walls banded in red and grey brick.
Narrow link to North tower of three storeys, three narrow bays, more Queen Anne in style. Eaves corbel table and parapet. Grey walls divided by red pilasters. Some tall segment-headed windows, some roundels in otherwise blank bays. Tall arcaded chimney stacks.

Waste from the smelting of iron ore for Palmer's shipyard was dumped in the fields to the north of Monkton village, eventually creating a vast slag heap which resulted in the Bede Burn being culverted. The slag heap was known locally as the 'Crusher'. This was reclaimed by the time Monkton Cokeworks closed in 1990 to create a large green space for recreation and nature (HER 8126).

Early-mid C19. Brick terrace with stone dressings including bands, eaves, cornice
and frieze and door surrounds of pilasters and entablature, cills and lintels.
Welsh slate roofs, originally of low pitch but several have over-large modern
mansards with dormers. Sash windows with glazing bars. Four-panel doors with
fanlights up flights of stone steps. Each two storeys and basement, three bays {1}. A uniform composition with a restrained frontage of pinkish brick with classical doorcases and stone dressings. Built around 1850. Heavy slate-hung dormers were added later. Short back yards with access from a lane. The rear of Woodbine Place is built of rough stone blocks and has windows on alternating levels {2}.

Roman Catholic. 1858 by A M Dunn.
Coursed dressed stone with high pitched slated roof. French Gothic style. Nave, aisles, short transepts, east chevet with swept pointed roof. Base for a tower at North-west corner but tower apparently not built. Gabled south-east chapel. Much elaborate tracery. Low south link to Presbytery, of similar materials. Three storeys, three bays in modified Gothic style with shaped window heads. Built to house three priests {1}. Coursed sandstone on a rock-faced base. It has a tall five-bay clerestoried nave with gabled steeply-pitched roof and lean-to aisles, lower north west tower and sanctuary with swept pointed roofs, and gabled north east and south east chapels. Roofs are Welsh slate with elaborate stone finials. The east and west windows have elaborate decorated tracery. The single storey link to the presbytery has perforated cresting. The presbytery, built for three priests, is three storeys, gabled and double-fronted with a canted two-storey bay. Hoodmoulds continue as a string course on the ground floor, there are segment and square-headed windows with foiled or traceried boarded heads and groups of four octagonal chimneys {2}.
The church contains much good stained glass by the firm of H. M. Barnett, of Bath Lane, Newcastle

This building was listed Grade II in 1983 with the following description:
'1897, HM Office of Works. Red brick, terra-cotta dressings, slate roof. Lively Renaissance style. Two storeys, three bays, the two at right projecting slightly under tall gable with foliage ornament and crown, ball finial. Very high pitched roof has tall chimneys with lesenes and stepped cornices. In left bay an eight- panel double door in moulded and chamfered frame with paired, trefoil-headed windows above under deeply moulded four-centred arch. Stone plinth. Mullioned and transomed windows, round-headed above, trefoiled below, have joggled voussoirs and irregular block jambs. Small hipped dormer behind battlemented parapet of left bay.
Plaque records this as the site of (the house of) Thomas Bewick, the celebrated engraver and illustrator.'

The former Post Office. 1873-5. Tooled stone with ashlar dressings, slate roof
with corniced stone chimneys. Simple building with some classical detail. Three
storeys (the top one seems to be an addition) five bays and three-bay West return
to Swinburne Place. Rusticated ground floor up to impost string of round-arched
recesses framing round-headed windows and door at right. Moulded plinth. Pilasters
rest on ground floor entablature, frame round-arched first floor windows with
archivolts and key blocks, and support a cornice. Segment arched second floor
windows in raised surrounds. All windows sashes. Moulded and modillioned eaves

Formerly the National Provincial Bank. 1871 possibly by John Gibson (architect to
National Provincial Bank). Ashlar in Quasi-classical style. Two storeys, five
bays on Swinburne Street. Three on left (East) return. Rusticated pilasters
support entablature, with heavy modillion cornice and frieze inscribed: NATIONAL
PROVINCIAL BANK OF ENGLAND, ESTABLISHED AD 1733. Unusual pierced parapet above.
Flat arched paired upper windows, round arched ground floor windows with architraves,
key and impost blocks, all with bracketed cills. Two doorways in similar openings.

Included as part of group of municipal buildings in Swinburne Street - West Street.

1915 dated on frieze. 1914-17 building period. By Arthur Stockwell. Sandstone ashlar with Welsh slate roof in adapted classical style. Projecting porch of one tall storey has rusticated side walls and four Corinthian columns in antis.
Entablature with modillioned and dentilled cornice has central balustraded parapet.
At sides, taller plinths support life size sculptures. The male figure represents Industry and Learning and holds a book. At his feet there is a cherub carrying a cog. The right-hand female figure represnts Art and holds a quill, with a cherub holding up a scroll. Within the porch, arcading frames central window and flanking doors.

One-storey, bow-ended side wings have quoins, entablature and balustraded parapet.
The pattern of tall centre and lower wings is repeated in the main spaces behind
which are also articulated with pilasters, entablature and balustraded parapets.